Five+Features+Three+Phases

Beginning** || **Phase 2 Developing** || **Phase 3 Concluding** ||
 * || **Phase I
 * **Discussion**

. || - Discuss among themselves what they think about themselves? - their own cultural identity.

- Instigate discussion of the broader theme that we are all immigrants - from the "Indians" until more recent arrivals - **//All Americans are immigrants -//** //**it's simply a matter of when we came here.**// An inclusive theme

- Stimulate research in other places who're largely settled by immigrants in comparatively recent times - say w/in the last 1,000 years (i.e., Australia, Central & South America, Iceland, the Pacific Islands) || - Research groups currently in America -Prepare questions for interview -Definitions

- America has the most ethnically diverse population of any nation on earth || -students play oral history tapes they've made of discussion w/ their relatives. ||
 * **Field Work**

. || - Talk with relatives

Discuss the history of immigration to the US

Discuss || -Research history of immigration to America - from the 3 waves of "native Americans" through the:Colonial period, the Westward expansion, the waves of 1848, 1860, 1910 to present time - from where they came.

-Research the current ethnic make-up of America today through people's ethnic ancestry

-Examine the history of how immigrants were 'welcomed' - the nativist tradition and assimilation

-Research how America has adopted the foods and cultural elements of its newcomers

-Visit Ellis Island

-Interview foreign born workers in town. || Social and economic inmigrants composition. What places of United States inmigrants settled. ||
 * **Representation

.** || Students look for photos of ancestors ||  ||   ||
 * **Investigation**

. || - nationality vs. ethnicity

- develop questions that link the reason why immigrants settle in certain locations (antecedents, geography, economy, etc.) || - e.g., A child born in the US w/ East Indian parents has a American nationality, but is of Indian ethnicity

- People have migrated all over the world, throughout human's deepest history || - show maps depicting the movement of early humans out of Africa, east to Asia, then north to the Middle East and Europe, and then from Asia to the Americas

-Research how DNA analysis has helped us better understand the places that are represented in our genes (e.g., National Geographic's project) ||
 * **Display**

. || - Family history

- Family tree

- Color code survey (see Interactive Activity under Presentation) || -Research about the original conuntries. || -Display demographic and nationality maps of America today - where we came from (e.g., % England, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, China, India, Mexico, etc.)

-Excerpt clips from films dealing with the immigrant experience, e.g. (The Perez Family, Gangs of New York, Far and Away, etc.)

-List foods (w/ pictures?) we take as everyday today, but have immigrant roots (e.g., bagels, tacos, pizza, hot dogs, fried chicken, etc.)

-Celebrate our diversity!!! ||

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