Lesson 5: Life for Immigrants in America
Duration of Days: 3
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to analyze the problems faced by immigrants once they arrived in America and how they attempted to address those problems.
How did immigrants respond the difficult living and working conditions in urban America?
tenemants, factories, ethnic enclaves, support networks, settlement houses
US.His.12.a., US.His.1.a.
Students will read articles about immigrant work and home life and compare that to articles about settlement houses, support networks and ethnic enclaves.
DOK 2 and 3
The readings can be at different lexile levels, the chart can be filled out on its own or it can be used as evidence to answer the more challenging question- did immigrants immediately experience the American Dream, explain?
The completed chart and answer to the essential question.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vm9rtHmWmXk6ikl4vMJ5JVUeFImTG9cB/view?usp=sharing