HW #21 Final Projects

Continue to work on your projects.  If you are doing an interview, you should complete that this weekend! 

HW #20 Refugees in America

Read the two article below and respond to the following:

Describe some of the struggles faced by Somali and Bosnian refugees as they adjust to life in the United States.  How is their experience different from that of other immigrants. 

Your response should be a minimum of three paragraphs (about 300 words) and typed!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/us/29youth.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/health/29immig.html?pagewanted=all

HW #19 Freedom From Fear

Freedom From Fear: Refugees in the US

Read the attached and answer the following in 3-4 complete sentences.

1. According to US law, what is the difference between a refugee and an asylum-seeker?
2. What is TPS?
3. Explain the difference between refugees and economic migrants.
4. Under the US Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act on 1996, what were immigrants required to do?

HW #18 Cold War & Immigration Reform

Answer each of the following questions in 50 (or more) words.  Your answers should be typed. 

1.    Explain how the Cold War affected immigration to the United States.

2.    Why did the first wave of Cubans come to the US after the Cuban Revolution, adapt to life in the US better than some other immigrant groups?

3.    Why were the Hmong targeted by the communist government of Laos?  How did the Hmong adjust to life in the US?

4.    Explain the relationship between the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration Act of 1965.

HW #17 Final Project Storyboard

Create a draft storyboard for your final project.

Your storyboard should describe:

• What will appear on the screen (photo, clip, graphic, title, or other kind of visual)
• What listeners will hear (music, narrative, sounds) 

Media List:

Here you list the specifics of each piece of media you will need; this will help you gather materials before beginning story construction; it also serves as a "works cited list" for copyright purposes...

• Music, songs, voice recordings, sounds
• Pictures, graphics, diagrams
• Video clip
• Text, title, transitions

HW# 16 Immigration Act of 1965 and Final Projects

• Read and Notate the attached.

Continue working on your projects.  By Monday you should have completed the following:

• Set up a time to meet with you interviewee
• Completed the first draft of your interview questions and narration
• Started compiling images (photos, letters, etc) -- you will probably need about 20-25 total

For people who are doing interviews, you should do some research on the country of origin of your interviewee to establish some background on their immigration experience -- this history will be included in your film.  

HW #15 Jewish Immigration to the United States

Immigration by Country of Origin

HW #14: Time of Fear

After the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This act, based on ethnicity, permitted the military to bypass the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense. The order excluded persons of Japanese ancestry then living on the West Coast from residing and working in certain locations, and culminated in the incarceration of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis. They were forced to live in remote camps behind barbed wire and under the surveillance of armed guards. Japanese American internment raised questions about the rights of American citizens as embodied in the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Source: 42explore.com

Write a 250 word response to one of the questions below. 

• Do you think that the United States government was justified in incarcerating Japanese Americans following the attacks? Why or why not? 

• Imagine you were a young person who was sent to the camps with your family, would you be angry about your experience or would you understand the fear that people felt following the attack on Pearl Harbor? 

• What lasting effect, if any, do you think the internment might have had on the people who lived in the camps?

• Do you see any similarities between the detention of and discrimination against Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the detention of and discrimination against Muslims following the 9/11 attacks?  Explain. 

HW# 13 Italian and Japanese Immigration

Read and answer the questions.

Due: Monday, March 19

Final Project Guidelines and Proposal

Project Guidelines

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GcpjRwhKWkwwDzYSAApOoYzKkJTL9_Yv6NJJSqdGHRU/edit

Proposal Application

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OHrbV6mQXzi9xrTmL9T1J_hMScXrfAa2Qlw15kG1AE/edit

Homework #12 Angel Island

Angel Island

Watch the films Angel Island and Paper Sons (the links are on the blog role on the right).  Write two paragraphs in which you compare the experience of immigrants who came through Ellis Island to the experience of immigrants who passed through Angel Island.  Your assignment should be typed and a minimum of 200 words.

Paper Sons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhc-om3SXKw&feature=related

Angle Island Immigration Center

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnpgiUY5ip4

Angel Island History

http://www.angel-island.com/history.html

You also might want to review the Ellis Island film for this assignment: 

Island of Hope, Island of Tears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4wzVuXPznk

Immigration 1880-1910

Homework #11 Era of Restriction

Complete the reading and questions for Era of Restriction

Homework #10 Era of Restriction

Read pp 1-7 of Era of Restriction and answer questions 1-5.

Homework #9 Early Immigration Laws

• Naturalization Act of 1795
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Anti-Coolie Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Naturalization Act of 1870
• Alien Contract Labor Law

Homework #8

Study for Quiz #1
Current Event Summary/Presentation #1
Current Event Guidelines:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k6OJ1zm4sBI9o980KdLWaQtpUFjl0Mbg1e42LuEEQRY/edit

Homework #7: Ellis Island

Read the history of Ellis Island and watch the film Island of Hope, Island of Tears (the link is located on the blog).  In two – three paragraphs (250-300 words, typed) describe what the experience was like for the immigrants who passed through the island. 

Homework #6: Irish Potato Famine

Read and notate.

Homework #5: Era of Open Borders

Complete the reading and answer the attached questions. 

Homework #4: Slaves and Indentured Sevants

Essay.  Using your readings and the film, write a five-paragraph essay in which you compare the experiences of European indentured servants and enslaved Africans.