Current Events Mapping Monday's
Current Events Europe
Objective: Given access to a Chromebook, students will be able to access Google MyMaps App and a Google Drive based Current Events Template from the class Blog. Using the MyMaps app and the template, students will be able to look-up current events and summarize their selected story on the template. In addition, students will be able to use the MyMaps app to plot the location of these current event stories.
Rationale: Students need to utilize the tools taught to them to ensure the learning becomes a part of their skill set. In addition, students need to become geographical aware of the world around them.
Evidence: Filling-in the Current Events template as well as using MyMaps to plot the location of the stories, will demonstrate that students have acquired the basic skills of fulfilling the assignment.
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Immigration
OBJECTIVE: Students will examine the various philosophies surrounding economic and social relationships between the state and the individual, with particular focus on Adam Smith and Karl Marx.
Economic philosophes of each of these two men will be analyzed to determine their strengths and weaknesses
RATIONALE: Students need to understand the factors that impact the economic opportunities or limits that are presented to them as a member of the American Economic system
EVIDENCE: By listing the various components of Capitalism, Socialism and Communism, students will gain a true understanding of the current economic system we live under and will become informed voters to either modify the system or reinforce its principles.
Immigration
Your work today will be to download the Immigration history chart, make a copy then fill-in the table provided with the information from the 4 Immigration summary articles below. As you fill-in the chart, you will also use the map of the USA to identify where immigrants relocated within the USA.
The categories of the chart are:
1. List the country name that "sent" immigrants to America
2. List if the reason they left was a Push or Pull (push = immigrants forced out of their country, Pull = immigrants chose to leave because something pulled them to America)
3. Describe/explain with details the Push Pull reason
4. List where they relocated in the US
5. List the types of jobs they had in America
Pre-Wave Intro
Pre-Wave Intro
- Student Chart
- Pre Wave Summary Reading
- Ist Wave Summary Reading
- 2nd Wave Summary Reading
- 3rd Wave Summary Reading
Ellis Island Interactive Tour Site
This site is the location where you will get the information for your fotonovela. The site takes you on a virtual tour of each stop along the journey to and through Ellis Island. You will use Google Slides, and make an 8.5 X 11 slide (portrait OR landscape) and make a visual tour with labeling on each of the images you use, reflecting what is occurring within the picture, as well as participant commentary. The link below will take you to the website where each step is described and explained.
Interactive Tour Ellis Island Stop #1 "The Arrival"
*Goal is to make an informational brochure that explains to prospective immigrants what they will encounter while arriving and proceeding through Ellis Island.
*Goal is to make an informational brochure that explains to prospective immigrants what they will encounter while arriving and proceeding through Ellis Island.
