Unit 3 – Immigration and Migration – Project Points

Responses Points Presentations Points

Textbook: The Americans American Peoples -20
-“The New Immigrants,” p. 460-465 -4 -Jewish Immigrants throughout U.S. History
-“The American Dream in the Fifties,” p. 847-852 -The Irish in the middle 1800s
-4
-The Chinese in the late 1800s
-African-Americans in the early 1900s
Textbook: Creating America -Caribbean Immigrants since 1950
-“The California Gold Rush,” p. 412-417 -4 -Hispanic-American Immigrants since 1950
-“The Hopes of Immigrants,” p. 423-428 -4
-“Railroad Transforms the Nation,” p. 590-593 On the Front Page
-4 -25
-May 7, 1947
Textbook: We the People -March 8, 1966
-“What amendments to the Constitution were added to
-6 -15
protect the rights of African Americans?” p. 122-126 America through Art
-“How may citizenship change in the nation’s third -Images of the American frontier
century?” p. 200-203 -4
-20
Science, Technology and Communication
Textbook: American History -The Industrial Revolution and Migration
“Cities and a Growing Population,” p. 334-338 -7
-30
-“War with Mexico…Movement West,” p. 362-366 -7 Book Report
-“Immigration,” p. 487-491 -7 -“How the Other Half Lives”
-“The Jungle”
Map Activity -5 -20
The Laws of the Land
-Jim Crow laws
Blog Post -6 -Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
-Quota Acts of 1921 & 1924
Class Forum -5 -Immigration Reform & Control Act of 1986

Immigration: Students’ 3-Minute Stories -6 Research Paper

-The Great Migration -30
Migration: Teachers’ Stories -8 -The Red Scare

Curriculum created by Joel Troge – The International High School at Lafayette – 2010
 -Nativist Reactions to Immigration in American History

Curriculum created by Joel Troge – The International High School at Lafayette – 2010