Immigration: Should We Keep America's Doors Open
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Collaborative and Inquiry-Based Learning for English Learners through Sharing and Listening Should we keep America’s Immigration Door Open?
Transcript of Immigration: Should We Keep America's Doors Open
Collaborative and Inquiry-Based Learning for English Learners through Sharing and Listening
Should we keep America’s Immigration Door Open?
According to Dr. Margo Gottlieb, lead WIDA Developer, “Academic language is defined by the language of social interaction and that of core curriculum areas. Academic content is associated with the skills and knowledge of the discipline. Language and content intersect when you measure vocabulary.”
Create meaningful discussions that draw from conversational language that includes academic vocabulary.
Sharing and Listening while collaborating in regards to something
that is meaningful to the student will result in
great conversations and discussions.
TG 13 Anticipation Guide
Collaboration and Inquiry-Based Learning
Teach students to be critical thinkers through a unique questioning strategy supporting close reading of complex texts.
informational textclose reading strategieswriting to sourcescritical thinkingappropriate text complexity text dependent questions and tasks
TG 16 Think Like a Historian
Inquiry-Based LearningShared Inquiry™ is a method of teaching and learning that enables people of all ages to explore the ideas, meaning, and information found in everything they read. It centers on interpretive questions that have more than one plausible answer and can lead to engaging and insightful conversations about the text. And it is based on the conviction that participants can gain a deeper understanding of a text when they work together and are prompted by the skilled questioning of their discussion leader.
Inquiry-Based Learning
Participants must read the selection carefully before the discussion.
The goal of the group is to discuss the ideas in the text and explore them fully.
Participants should support interpretations of the text with evidence from the work.
Everyone needs to listen carefully to the other participants and respond to them directly.
The leader is there to ask questions rather than offer his/her own interpretations of the text.
Five key guidelines to engaging in a successful Shared Inquiry discussion:
Collaboration and Inquiry-Based Learning
From There to Here: The Immigrant Experience
Essential Question: Should We Keep America’s Immigration Door Open?
Cluster One: Who Were the Immigrants and Why Did They Come?—Investigating
Cluster Two: What First Experiences Did Immigrants Have?—Analyzing
Cluster Three: Did Immigrant Expectations Match Reality?—Comparing and Contrasting
Cluster Four: What Is the Immigrant Experience Today?—Evaluating
Cluster Five: Thinking on Your Own—Synthesizing
Featuring the Cast from Avengers
Cluster One: Who Were the Immigrants and Why Did They Come?—Investigating
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Featuring the Cast from Big Hero 6
Cluster Two: What First Experiences Did Immigrants Have?—Analyzing
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Cluster Three: Did Immigrant Expectations Match Reality?—Comparing and Contrasting
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Cluster Four: What Is the Immigrant Experience Today?—Evaluating
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Cluster Five: Thinking on Your Own—Synthesizing
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Read “The New Colossus” SE 15
Read “Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Undocumented Foreigners SE 135
• Should people in desperate situations remain undeterred by the “laws and barbed wire” that might keep them out of the United States?
• Are Emma Lazarus’s words too idealistic?
• What aspects of the current US immigration situation seem ironic or absurd to you? Express your own opinion on the immigration issue in the form of a political cartoon.
Literature and Thought
Govt. and Current Events
Historical Events and Eras
Literary Genres Literary Themes
Kim Moore678-323-5500kmoore@perfectionlearning.comwww.perfectionlearning.com
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