Block Day, Feb.21-22 ~ Immigration Lecture

Discuss Journal 19
EQ: What did you learn from your parents/adults about the issue of immigration in the U.S.?

Journal Check (#s1-19, not 16)

Quick Video:
On general immigration
On the recent refugee crisis
And one more...

Vocabulary Walk 

• Here is a digital file.
• Here is a quizlet.

Journal 20 Notes: Lecture ~ A LONG History Between Mexico and the U.S.

• 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.

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Journal 21: 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 22

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.