Daily Lesson Plan

School: Airport High School Name: Kevin Wallace

Date: Monday April 9, 2018 Course: History of Minorities

1st Block

Length of Class: 90 minutes Grade Level: 10th – 12th

Number of students: 22 # of Adults in Classroom: 2

Unit Topic/ Title: Hispanic Immigrants in the 21st Century: DACA Laws

Standards: USHC-7.6: Analyze the causes and consequences of social and cultural changes in
postwar America, including educational programs, the consumer culture and expanding
suburbanization, and demographic patterns in American society.

USHC-8.5: Summarize key political and economic issues of the last twenty-five years, including
immigration.

Learning Targets: Summarizing, Note Taking, and Collaborative Learning.

E.L.I.T.E. Start: Describe your interpretation of DACA?

Essential Question: How does immigration policies in today’s society affect our daily lives?

Real World Connection: In the 21st century immigration policies are constantly changing all
around the world and affect the lives of so many families, including many of our friends and
classmates that attend this school.

Learning Design:
 E.L.I.T.E. Start – Students will describe what they already know about the DACA laws.
 Individual Reading – Students will individually read a news article and take Cornell
notes. While students are reading their news article I will show the students a short video
on DACA.
 Group Activity – Students will work together to talk about a DACA in a Fishbowl
activity.
 Exit Slip – complete a KWL chart about what they learned about DACA.

Texts/Resources: Internet and Textbook.

Digital Workflow Notes: iPad, PowerSchool, PowerPoint, and Projector

Classroom Geography: The students are arranged in groups of three equally spaced throughout
the classroom.
Lesson Layout in minutes:
Announcements: 5 minutes
E.L.I.T.E. Start: 5 minutes
Individual Reading: 20 – 30 minutes
Group Activity: 30 – 40 minutes
Exit Slip: 5 – 10 minutes
Total: 90 minutes

IEP: For my student(s) who have an IEP, I will need to provide those student(s) with the special
education and related services as listed in that student’s IEP. This will include all of the
necessary supplementary aids & services and any program modifications that the IEP team at
Lexington School District Two and Airport High School has identified as necessary for each of
the student(s) to advance appropriately toward his or her IEP goals. In order to complete these
IEP goals, these student(s) will be involved in & progress in the general curriculum, and
participate in other school activities.

Lesson Description: To connect the students to the topic that they will be learning today I will
focus their ELITE Start question as a pre-assessment by asking them what they already know
about the DACA immigration laws passed by President Obama in 2012. After I retain feedback
about what the students already know about DACA, students will be assigned a news article on
DACA so that they can get a better understanding about the DACA laws passed by President
Obama and why President Trump is trying to repeal it. While each student is reading the news
article they are to take Cornell notes and answer questions to guide them on the right path for the
Fishbowl activity that they will be taking part in during the second part of class. While the
students are taking their Cornell notes I will show a 3 minute video imbedded in the original
news article so that they can hear the story of a Hispanic immigrant originally protected under
the DACA laws. During the second half of the class the students will arrange the desks into an
inner and outer circle. Before the students get started on the Fishbowl activity I will randomly
assign the students into either the inner or outer circle and go over the rule of how a Fishbowl
strategy works. Once all of the students are seated at their assigned area I will provide a topic(s)
that will be discussed by the inner circle for the first ten minutes while the students in the outer
circle listen. After the first ten minutes the students in the inner circle will invite the students in
the outer circle to join the inner circle discussion for the next 10 to 15 minutes. After the
students finish discussing the first topic I will have several students from the outer circle trade
places with the students in the inner circle to lead the discussion of the second topic for the next
ten minutes before inviting the rest of the class to participate in the discussion. The discussion
topics are: Part One: Why is our current president wanting to dissolve DACA and come up with
his own policy? Part Two: What changes do you think President Trump should make to ensure
that the immigrants protected under DACA are still protected under the new immigration laws?
During the last five to ten minutes I will have the students fill out a KWL chart for an EXIT Slip
so that I can get academic feedback about what they already knew and what they learned about
the lesson on DACA.
What is Daca and who are the Dreamers?
Here is everything you need to know about the program that gives
temporary protection to undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as
children

Joanna Walters in New York

@Joannawalters13

Thu 14 Sep 2017 11.30 EDTFirst published on Mon 4 Sep 2017 13.04 EDT

The Trump administration announced last week that it planned to scrap Daca,
the program that gives temporary protection to undocumented migrants who
arrived in the US as children.

Attorney general Jeff Sessions said the US would end Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals in March 2018, throwing almost 800,000 people into
turmoil and fear. Congress was given up to six months to find a legislative
alternative, after Sessions announced that new applications would no longer
be accepted.

There has been a determined Democratic pushback: on Wednesday night,

party leaders in Congress said they had agreed with Donald Trump to protect
such people, known as Dreamers, via legislation and increased spending on
border security. The status of that deal was contested on Thursday morning,
but Trump told reporters: “We’re working on a plan for Daca.”

So what is Daca, who are the people affected and what will happen to them?

What is Daca?
Daca is a federal government program created in 2012 under Barack Obama to
allow people brought to the US illegally as children the temporary right to live,
study and work in America. Those applying are vetted for any criminal history
or threat to national security and must be students or have completed school
or military service. If they pass vetting, action to deport them is deferred for
two years, with a chance to renew, and they become eligible for basics like a
driving license, college enrollment or a work permit.

Who are the Dreamers?

Those protected under Daca are known as “Dreamers” – by the time Trump
announced his decision to rescind the program, 787,580 had been granted
approval. To apply, they must have been younger than 31 on 15 June 2012,
when the program began, and “undocumented”, lacking legal immigration
status. They must have arrived in the US before turning 16 and lived there
continuously since June 2007. Most Dreamers are from Mexico, El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras and the largest numbers live in California, Texas,
Florida and New York. They range in age from 15 to 36, according to the White
House.

Why are they called Dreamers?

The Daca program was a compromise devised by the Obama administration
after Congress failed to pass the so-called Development, Relief and Education
for Alien Minors (Dream) Act, which would have offered those who had
arrived illegally as children the chance of permanent legal residency. The
bipartisan act was introduced in 2001 and has repeatedly failed to pass.

What did Trump announce?

During last year’s divisive election, Trump promised to rip up Daca
immediately and make the deportation of the US’s estimated 11 million
undocumented persons a top priority, along with his threats to ban all
Muslims from entering the US and to build a wall along the border with
Mexico. He has not yet successfully executed any of these threats.

The administration announced last week that it would begin “an orderly,
lawful wind down” of Daca, including “the cancellation of the memo that
authorized this program”, which was sent from homeland security secretary
Janet Napolitano to immigration chiefs in 2012, telling them not to enforce
deportation of Dreamers. Trump gave Congress six months to come up with a
legislative solution. Because Obama created the Daca program as an
executive policy decision, Trump had the power simply to reverse the policy.
He indicated that the government will “generally not take actions” to remove
law-abiding Daca recipients.

What will happen to the Dreamers?

Under the Trump administration, new applications under Daca will no longer
be accepted. For those currently in the program, their legal status and other
Daca-related permits (such as to work and attend college) will begin expiring
in March 2018 – unless Congress passes legislation allowing a new channel for
temporary or permanent legal immigration status – and Dreamers will all lose
their status by March 2020.

Technically, as their statuses lapse they could be deported and sent back to
countries many have no familiarity with. It is still unclear whether this would
happen. Fear had been rising in the run-up to last week’s announcement.
Those with work permits expiring between 5 September 2017 and 5 March
2018 will be allowed to apply for renewal by 5 October.

What has Trump said about Dreamers?

On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump said his administration would
“immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties”,
by which he meant Daca and another order protecting some parents of
children in the US, where the children had legal status but the parents were
illegal immigrants. Trump did scrap the second program, which was blocked
in the courts anyway.

In a speech in August 2016, in North Carolina, when talking about poverty and
the elusiveness of the so-called American dream for many US citizens, Trump
indirectly criticized Daca and its beneficieries, saying: “We want our children
to be Dreamers, too.” After becoming president, Trump said he wanted to
“work something out” for Dreamers. “We don’t want to hurt those kids,” he
said. “We love the Dreamers.” On the day the end of Daca was announced, he
said: “I have advised the department of homeland security that Daca
recipients are not enforcement priorities unless they are criminals, are
involved in criminal activity, or are members of a gang.”

Why were Republican state attorneys general

suing Trump over Daca?
After watching Trump fail to issue an executive order rescinding Daca upon
taking office, and publicly dither over the Dreamers, anti-immigration
Republican state leaders decided to force his hand. Many in Trump’s hardline
conservative base argue that Daca is unconstitutional and Dreamers are illegal
and threaten American jobs and culture. Ken Paxton, the attorney general of
Texas, sent a letter to Sessions (who opposes Daca) in June, threatening to
add Daca to another anti-immigration lawsuit already under way against the
federal government unless it cancels the program by 5 September.
That letter was also signed by the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas,
Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee and West
Virginia. Tennessee then reversed course to support Daca and finding a
permanent legislative solution for those in immigration legal limbo.

Which states announced plans to sue Trump over

his decision to rescind Daca?
After Sessions announced the decision to rescind Daca, 15 states and
Washington DC announced a lawsuit of their own against the administration.
Announcing the suit in Seattle, Washington state attorney general Bob
Ferguson said Trump’s decision to end Daca was “cruel and unlawful” and
added: ““It’s outrageous and I’m not going to put up with it. It’s not right.”

The states in the suit are: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa,
Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

California subsequently announced its own suit.

Who supports Daca?

In addition to immigration advocates and most Democratic politicians, a
majority of national politicians in the Republican party reportedly did not
want Trump to scrap Daca, including such prominent figures as House
speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona senator John McCain. A prominent group of
evangelical leaders wrote to Trump last month telling him that Dreamers “are
leading in our churches and our communities”.