Guide Entry to 26.03.05
In this curriculum, “Voice of Arrival: Asian American Stories in California”, ELD students will learn about California’s Asian American immigration history. They will analyze key policies and landmark cases shaping today’s immigration system. To build foundational knowledge, students will compare and contrast critical events of Asian Exclusion (1875-1943) with the present day. Students will also examine the experiences of different Asian ethnic groups and the legacies of exclusion. In parallel, students will discover that community groups came together to advocate for the newcomers. As the unit unfolds, students will gain an understanding of the nuances among the 1st-, 1.5-, and 2nd-generation by reading excerpts from narratives, graphic novels, and poems. Subsequently, they will become introspective when comparing the experiences of immigrants they read about in class to their own 1.5-generation experience. By the end of the unit, students will grapple with materials that affirm their right to a bilingual education. Through targeted vocabulary instruction, sentence frames, word banks, think-pair-share activities, graphic organizers, and the use of visuals, students will build the English skills to write and present their California arrival poem to all their peers, regardless of cultural backgrounds.
(Developed for ELD 2, grades 9-12; recommended for ELD 3, grades 9-12)
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