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= __Unit 4 Essential Question: What does it take to Survive?__ =

Students will:

 * ===make personal connections to a text.===

**Homework:**

 * Make a Venn Diagram about what Irish immigrants faced coming to the US and what you faced when you came to the US. What was the same, what was different?

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Reminders:

 * ** Checking homework today: **
 * ** Scan for Vocabulary, 252-259 **
 * ** Devine will check HW Monday **
 * ** Mr. Devine will be in the Night Library every Tuesday from 3:00 to 6:00. **

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0. Students Enter The Room

 * Students come in the classroom and copy the learning objectives and homework in their planners/notebooks. Give students 2 or 3 minutes to do this.

1. Unit 4 Cluster 1
 * Quizlet
 * Show the vocabulary quizlet on the overhead projector (DocuCam). Students will copy the definition and match it to the correct vocabulary word. Give students 8 minutes for this activity, then call on students for responses.

2. Immigration Research Project
 * Students will be writing a research paper on immigration this quarter. To get them ready, please have students __form groups of 3 to 4__ and answer the following questions in their notebooks (have students copy the questions, then answer them). Students will keep this in their notebooks:
 * When did you come to the United States?
 * How did you get to the United States?
 * Why did you come to the United States?
 * What did you think of the United States when you first got here?
 * How did other immigrants treat you when you arrived in the United States?
 * How did people who were born in the United States treat you when you arrived here?
 * How did you have to change, as a person, when you came to the United States? Explain.
 * Was it easy for people in your family to find a job in the United States? Explain.

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 * Irish immigration
 * Now, have students take our their Irish Immigration article (they should all have this--it's okay if some students need to share).
 * Step 1: Have each group re-read the article (they have been reading it in another class). Each person needs to take turns--they can help each other pronounce the words.
 * Step 2: Answer the following questions about Irish immigration:
 * How many people came to the US from Ireland from 1820 to 1920?
 * Why did so many Irish people come to the United States? Explain.
 * How did people born in the US (nativists) treat the Irish immigrants?
 * What did people who were born in the US think of Irish Catholics?
 * What kinds of jobs did Irish immigrants do when they came to the US?
 * Why was life so hard for Irish immigrants?
 * What helped Irish people continue to try to make a life in the US instead of just leaving?
 * How are the descendents of Irish immigrants treated today in the US?
 * Step 3: Begin Homework if time permits.