Appendix on Implementing District Standards
ELA:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.3 - Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
With each narrative students read, whether whole class or in small groups, students will be reflecting on, analyzing and connecting with the text through discussion or writing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Students will use the narratives they read as models to write their own well-structured detailed immigrant narrative. They will create these narratives from notes they took from interviewing a relative, friend, community member, or by conducting a “self-interview”.
Social Studies:
8.4.7.D - Explain how conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations have impacted the history of the world.
Students will reflect, through discussion and through journal writing, on how the U.S. colonization of the Philippines lead to both conflict and cooperation between the two countries. This conflict and cooperation were factors in many Filipinos’ decision to immigrate to the United States.
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