The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York is (partially) as follows:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled 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
Photo taken in 2011.
Hi everyone,
Welcome back to Westview and the start of our time in 2020 together! Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 2: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Soundtrack: "New Year's Day" by U2. Selected for today because of the obvious connection to the start of 2019 in class. My dad used to play this song loudly every January 1 as I was growing up! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/6/20:
News Brief – Mr. Fritz
Immigration Overview
PowerPoint Notes
Where Are We From?
News Brief: I had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: TheGuardian.com - Iowa: Sanders, Biden and Buttigieg in three-way tie as caucuses loom. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class over Winter Break.
Maiya was assigned to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Where Are We From?: At the start of class (as the first slide of the presentation indicates), we took a quick class field trip to the front lobby at Westview, which has the languages of students hanging. The prompt here was (this is posted on Google Classroom):
Select a language spoken here that you want to learn more about (not your own) – write it down.
How many people speak the language in the United States? What is their story?
We talked about what we found as a class - hopefully students found this introductory activity interesting!
Immigration Overview: To start off our unit on immigration to end the semester, I showed this video about sources of immigration to the United States since 1850:
This was to help provide some background knowledge as we began thinking about reasons people would move to the United States and their impact once arriving here.
PowerPoint Notes: Next, I had students learn a bit more of the details about how and when people came to the United States, through this presentation:
Here is the sheet for notes on the presentation as we went through it:
And here is the timeline on the back side of the note sheet in class:
Thanks for following along with this! It's great to be back - let's have an awesome end to the first semester!
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