Immigration

=Immigration Wiki= =Day 1 Effect Of Immigration=



**A. What is a tenement house? (You may have to search other sites to answer this question) B. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing? C. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing? D. What potential obstacles can you forsee for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s?​** ** a. A tenement house is run-down and often over crowed apartment house in a poor section of a large city. **** b. Immigration led to the creation of tenements because people were immigrating and needed a place to stay so the city made a a low standard apartment that had a enough room for the family to sleep, eat, cook, and work. ** ** c. In the early 1900's thge life for immigrates wasnt so easy kids had to work from 7am to 7pm and getting paid $10 a week. For kids to go to school the family had to make a scarifice to send their child to school to get an education ** ** d. An obstacle that i forsee for the arrived immigrants are the search for jobs and discrimnination against them.

Immigration Project Questions **


 * Immigration Today ** Technology Objective 1. Student should click their own ethnic background on the drop down menu and use the sliding timeline to trace when people of the same ethnic background began arriving in the U.S. and where they went initially. They will also look to see where the ‘enclaves’/neighborhoods exist today.

Summary on Immigration Today
Immigration today is different than it was before the cops are starting to be known as the bad guys. In the story about Gilmer Hernandez he stopped a car for running a stop sign and made a statement that there were at least 8 or 9 people in the car under and in between the seats. When he knocked on the window of the driver, the driver run off and Gilmer shot the car 6 times but said he shot 4 times. He ended up shooting a women in the back seat and was then chargered in jail for 1 year and a day. He is now known as a criminal.



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1. Choose one of the immigration issues you learned about in the "Immigration Today" lesson with Mrs. DeSantis. You wil be creating a Voicethread (combination of visuals and audio) to comment on one of these issues.
 * Final Project Voicethread:**

2. Research your topic via the internet. Find at least three websites as resources for your information and images. You must add these links to your wiki page as "resources used" for your final project. Find a minimum of four images that represent immigration issues today. Use voicethread.com to place these images in a "thread". Once you have selected and added your images, you will create a "script" in your digital notebook. DO NOT record your voice until you have a scipt written out in your notebook!

3. For each image, you should...
 * describe what is going on in the image/what issue it represents
 * explain any recent news stories that pertain to the issues
 * tell why, in your opinion, it is an important issue
 * analyze what could be done to solve whatever the issue is (come up with a solution)

4. Once you have brainstormed (and written them in your digital notebook) answers to these prompts, you may go back to voicethread to record your voice/your partner's voice explaining/analyzing the images that you chose.

5. Link the voicethread to your wiki page and invite classmates/teachers to respond to your thread!

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