Migrating to the Northwest: Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Language Arts/History 9/10

Designed by
Karen Haggard and David White-Espin
kchaggard@seattleschools.org  ddwhiteespin@seattleschools.org

 

Standards| Scenario| Task| Resources| Assessment|

Essential Question/Scenario
Which conditions existed to cause people to leave their home and move to new a place?  What attracted people to the new place? 

You have been selected by your home, village, town, or extended family to leave your community.  Your community is experiencing hardship and needs relief.  You are the best candidate to go elsewhere to learn, earn, and return.  You must decide what you will leave behind, and what you will take with you.  You will be heading to Washington State. 

Your Task
1.  Choose a time and a place in history of origin. 

Southern States of the United States (1930s or 1950s) http://www.answers.com/topic/black-migration

Guatemala (1980s) http://www.georgetown.txed.net/faculty/forbes/_MittelstedWebs/Group%203/jackson.k.htm

Vietnam (1970s)   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

Sudan (1992) http://www.crimesofwar.org/sudan-mag/sudan-in-discuss.html

Poland (1940s) http://www.newseum.org/holocaust/

READ information in link above.

Keep a journal.  Research and record in your journal what was happening in your hometown that caused your community to send you on this journey.

WRITE in your journal.

To get to a journal click on the picture below.

2.  Draw your route to Washington. 

                    For the world: Click here to open Excel worksheet. 

                    For the United States:  Click here to open Excel worksheet.

Research and record in your journal what was happening in your hometown that caused your community to send you on this journey.  Also research and record what was happening in Washington at this time.  In both communities identify what was happening politically, culturally, economically, the state of the environment, and the health of the people. 

Write a final letter home announcing your return or intentions on staying, address the envelop and include stamp from the correct time period.   Mail this with your journal.

Resources

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/?node=36 

http://www.migrationinformation.org/

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

http://shl.stanford.edu/Crowds/

Assessment Criteria
You will share your journal.  Print out your journal, bind it, add artifacts and pictures.  Send your journal with final letter back to your native country.  You will be graded on the 4 areas:  accuracy, clarity, neatness, and presentation. 

Standards

The student understands the meaning of what is read.
2.3 Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text.

The student writes in a variety of forms for different audiences and purposes.2.3 write in a variety of forms
including narratives, journals, poems, essays, stories, research reports, and technical writing

 The student examines and understands major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history.1.3 Examine the influence of culture on United States, world, and Washington State history

Washington State EALRs <http://www.k12.wa.us/curriculuminstruct/default.aspx>

ISTE Technology Standards < http://cnets.iste.org/students>

Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning.