Personal history essays were due today.
Students who had their essay were asked to complete the following self-evaluation:
Given the criteria of:
Thesis/ Topic Sentences/ Evidence being present and connected
Clear explanations for evidence
Generally well written with a conclusion
Answer the following questions including explanations for why:
What did I do well?
What needs work?
What grade do I deserve?
Turn in the evaluation, the final copy, and the color marked draft.
Students who did not have their essay were to turn in the following self-evaluation:
What's going on?
What is my plan to complete this assignment (being very specific)
Will I attend tutorial this Tuesday or this Wednesday?
What help do I need to be successful?
Students then created a "Immigration Unit" section in their notebooks and answered the following question:
Who should live in the area called The United States of America? Why?
Students then were given the following handout to review as homework.
Students who had their essay were asked to complete the following self-evaluation:
Given the criteria of:
Thesis/ Topic Sentences/ Evidence being present and connected
Clear explanations for evidence
Generally well written with a conclusion
Answer the following questions including explanations for why:
What did I do well?
What needs work?
What grade do I deserve?
Turn in the evaluation, the final copy, and the color marked draft.
Students who did not have their essay were to turn in the following self-evaluation:
What's going on?
What is my plan to complete this assignment (being very specific)
Will I attend tutorial this Tuesday or this Wednesday?
What help do I need to be successful?
Students then created a "Immigration Unit" section in their notebooks and answered the following question:
Who should live in the area called The United States of America? Why?
Students then were given the following handout to review as homework.
Name ______________________________________ Date _________________
Period ______
The poem below “The New Colossus” is by a woman named
Emma Lazarus. The poem is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York
Harbor. As we read the poem consider whether this poem reflects your views on
immigration (and humanity) and whether it reflects our nations current views on
immigration.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World;
French: La Liberté éclairant le
monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, inManhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on
October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the
law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of
Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at
her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a
welcoming signal to immigrants arriving frrom abroad. (Wikipedia.com)
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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