Block Day, Feb. 22-23 ~ 100 Years of Immigration

GRAMMAR ~ SEMI-COLON CONTINUED

• Use Bedford to take notes on 34d and complete Exercise 34-1 (page 402).

IMMIGRATION UNIT

• Discuss what you learned in the webquest.
• EQ: What is the current situation? Why is it so controversial and frustrating?

Notes: A LONG History based on a lecture

• History Lecture: Immigration History  1900-1999
• New Vocab: 
• Push Factors = Reasons to leave a country 
• Pull Factors = Reasons to enter a country.
• Click here for lecture notes. You should draw images or add small notes to help you remember information for a quiz later next week. Today's lecture is taken from this source document. Click here for the power point.

Line to apply for the Bracero Program

Journal 22: A Recent History based on theSKIMM's timeline

1. List a few factors that have influenced U.S. laws over the last 50 years. 
2. Name at least three problems that lawmakers tried to solve with past laws.
3. What kinds of complications have made the laws hard to define and keep?

Journal 23

1. Based on what you've heard in class today, brainstorm with a partner. What are the major Push/Pull factors in today's immigration surge?  How have these factors changed over the last 100 years?
2. Write a paragraph explaining why this issue is so historically complex, emotionally charged and seemingly impossible to solve.

HW: Finish J22 & J23 AND bring a first draft of your research question on Monday. Click here if you need help forming your research question.