Teacher: Sandra Urista Content: US History Grade: 11th

Learning Explain how immigration changed during the late 1800s.

Objective
We will

Closing Write and Share how immigration changed during the late 1800s with my table group
Task
I will

Beginning - Hook Middle Heart End Hallelujah

Introduction to Transformation
of American Society
Show the following documentary,
Ellis Islands History of
Immigration to the United States
(1890-1920);
Bell Ringer: Why is American
often referred to as a melting pot
country?
(2 chunks?)
After watching the documentary students
will break into small groups and discuss
how immigration changed during the late
1800s.
have contributed to an increase
In a group discussion, I will ask
Despite these harsh conditions, many
immigrants clung to the hope of a better
life.
With the use of the anchor chart group
discussion:
Harsh Condition Characteristics of
Better Life
(Closing Task)
Analyzing Primary Sources
Individual work: Students will
read the following passage and
analyze and write why the
growth of tenement houses
in gangs.
The gang is an institution in
New York [It] is the ripe
fruit of the tenement-house
Of the 82,200 persons arrested
by the police in 1889, 10505
were under twenty years old.
The last report of the society
for the prevention of Cruelty to
Children enumerates [lists], as
a few typical cases, eighteen
professional cracksmen,
between nine and fifteen years
old, who had been caught with
burglars tools, or in the act of
robbery. Four of them hardly
yet in long trousers, had held
up a wayfarer in the public
street and robbed him $73
Four of the eighteen were girls
and were quite as bad as the
worst.
Jacob Riis, journalist and social
reformer

Where is the writing happening?

In their own words, students will have the opportunity to write during the bell ringer activity and
especially when the analyze the primary source.
Where are the opportunities for small group purposeful talk happening?
During the middle of the lesson, the students will break into small group discussion and reflect how
immigration changed during the late 1800s.

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