Good Morning!!!!1. NVC

2. Immigration: Coming to America!

3. Research Paper Peer Review

Essential Question: What was it like to be in Immigrant coming to the US in the 1800s?Homework: Research Paper DUE NEXT FRIDAY!

Transition: Immigration

What do you know about your family’s immigration history? Where did your family come from? Why did they come here?

CHEIKEN

Immigrants• Vast majority of immigrants

in 1880s from Europe– Also from Asia, Canada, and

Mexico

• Push Factors– Population Growth – Hunger– Lack of Arable (farm) Land– Religious Persecution

• Pull Factors– Democracy– Jobs– Natural Resources

Coming to Americaaaaa!

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddles masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door”

~Emma Lazarus 1883, Jewish-American poet

Coming to Americ-uh what?...

“Imprisoned in the wooden building day after day, my freedom withheld; how can I bear to talk about it?”– Unknown Chinese Detainee

The Immigrant’s Journey

• Long journey across the Ocean– Steerage Class: standing

room only

• Ellis Island– East Coast immigration center

in New York– 75% of immigrants come here

(mostly European)

• Angel Island– West Coast immigration

center in San Fran– Mostly Asian Immigrants

Life at an Immigration Station• Medical Inspections– “Six Second Exam”– Incredibly invasive

• Legal Interviews– 29 Questions– Some are “trick”

questions = trying to deport you

• 20% fail one of these tests and are detained

• 2% deported

Life After Ellis/Angel Island

• Vast majority settle in cities– Tenements: crowded,

dirty housing for the poor

– Settlement Houses: provide services to help to immigrants

• Most Americans are hostile to immigrants

Peer Editing• Swap your outline with your partner• You will use the scoring guide to assess your

partner’s outline. • Mark your score on the guide attached to the

assignment sheet.• If you are not prepared with an outline, then

take out your notes and a textbook and work on your thesis statement and outline.

Getting started1. Read your prompt and re-write it once in different

words to make sure you understand it.2. Read the chapter in your textbook and get down

notes that relate to your topic.3. Using your notes, create a thesis statement that

answers the prompt by making three main groups of your ideas.

4. Figure out which evidence will fit with each idea.5. Come up with search terms to help you conduct your

research online.

Scoring GuideIntroduction and Thesis• __ Introduction sets place and time• __ Thesis statement answers the prompt• __ Thesis statement states a position.• __Thesis statement includes sub-claims (paragraph topics) that are different than the list of research terms on

the assignment sheet.• __ Sub-claims are more refined than economic, social, political, opportunity, conflict or positive and negative.• __ Uses academic vocabulary, like transition words.• __ Is written clearly.Claims (Topic Sentences of the Body Paragraphs)• __ Describes a topic that is not one of the key terms given on the assignment sheet.• __ Is a complete sentence.• __ Does not repeat the exact same words used in the thesis statement.• __ Connects to the thesis sentence.Evidence• __ Is fully explained.• __ Includes information beyond what is in the textbook.• __ Uses at least 2 of the suggested key terms or people to support your claim.• __ Includes commentary that connects the evidence back to the claim and/or the thesis statement.• __ Includes source information from at least 3 sources.Conclusion and Research Skills• __ States why the information included is historically significant or of interest to the reader.