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Teaching Justice: Schooling and the Four Waves of U.S. Immigration Lesson PlanTeaching Justice: Schooling and the Four Waves of U.S. Immigration Lesson Plan
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Teaching Justice: Schooling and the Four Waves of U.S. Immigration

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U.S. immigration is the focus of a unit on social justice. Over the course of a school year, young historians read a variety of texts to learn about four waves of immigration that have occurred over time in the U.S. An emphasis on perspective, cultural values, and character education weaves throughout. 

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compare and contrast, informational texts, united states immigration, immigration, sequences, patterns

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americanization, u.s. immigration, cause and effect, historical event, Informational Text, sequence, compare and contrast texts, informational texts, integrate information, social studies
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3rd - 6th
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Social Studies & History
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