Global Migration: Moving to America Unit Overview

Ruth's Reflection focuses on the complications of retaining culture and personal identity as a global immigrant. The Reflection also highlights the importance of global migration by demonstrating the diversity and richness that is added though new music, foods, art, and language.

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Reflection: Global Migration: Moving To America by Ruth Bekele

Follow Ruth's journey to America in her Reflection which focuses on the complications of retaining culture and personal identity as a global immigrant. She also highlights the importance of global migration by discussing the diversity and richness that is added though new music, foods, art, and language. 

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Learning Activity: English/Language Arts- Inside A Immigrant’s Mind

English/Language Arts / 

6th 7th 8th

 / 3-6 class periods (135-300 min depending on how much HW is assigned)

Students will practice identification and analysis of characterization in order to better understand immigrants in America.  Students will use this understanding of characterization to create a short fictional account of an immigrant’s first impressions of arriving in America.

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Learning Activity: Science-The Push and Pull Impact of Migration

Science / 

6th 7th 8th

 / 2-3 class periods (120 min)

Students identify the two primary factors of global migration and identify connections between them. The Concept of Scale is introduced to demonstrate how these factors impact the health of ecosystems. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is used to assess the effects of ecosystem changes on our global health.

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Learning Activity: Social Studies-A Nation of Immigrants

Social Studies / 

6th 7th 8th

 / 3-4 class periods (135-180 min)

Students will read the One World Reflection, “Global Migration: Moving to America.”  Through interviews, writing and discussion, students will study reasons people migrate to the United States, how they adjust and how they have affected the new communities where they live.

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Unit Resources
Previewing the Reflection: 

A series of open-ended pre-reading questions designed to engage students, assess prior knowledge, and expose any pre-conceived ideas about the person or culture explored in the Reflection.  Previewing the Experience questions are intended to be non-threatening and accessible to a range of students.  Students are encouraged to answer honestly, and to discuss their answers with their classmates.

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Understanding the Reflection: 

This resource is to be used during and after students read the Reflection.  Included in it are a series of reading comprehension questions designed to check for student understanding of the Reflection.  These questions formats include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short response, or other effective questioning strategies.

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Reviewing the Reflection: 

This resource is to be used after students read the Reflection.  It includes a series of post-reading questions designed to encourage student reflection and assess changes in students' perception and understanding of the cultural issues addressed in the unit through some deliberately repeated questions in the "Previewing the Experience" activity.

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Reflection Response: 

This resource should be used after the students read the Reflection. Students are presented with a list of questions intended to illicit a more personal response about the Reflection they have just read. After considering those questions, students compose a letter to the author of the Reflection with their thoughts, observations, questions and comments. Teachers should feel free to contact rachel@oneworldeducation.org if they would like to have their students' finished letters delivered to the One World Ambassador.

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