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Activities
Activity 1.2: Deciphering Messages
Use this activity to help build a foundation of vocabulary for discussing immigration policy, the process of immigration, and attainment of citizenship through an interactive quiz. (approx. 10-20 min.)
Activity 10.1: What Have We Learned?
Students have a class discussion reflecting on what they have learned and where they are headed.
Activity 10.2: Getting Active
Students develop a design for an immigrant projects.
Activity 11.1: History Repeats Itself
Students discuss reasons behind the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment during times of conflict and war.
Activity 11.3: Fast-forward to the Present
Students examine issues related to immigration and make connections with international law.
Activity 11.4: A Deeper Look in Minnesota
Students examine and discuss a specific case related to immigration.
Activity 2.2: A Patchwork of Stories
Students will examine the role immigration has played in the history of the United States, beginning with stories from their own families.
Activity 2.5: Going Deeper
In small groups, students choose one immigrant group to research briefly and prepare a 7-10 minute presentation for the entire class.
Activity 3.2: Taking the Reins
The United States attempts to achieve certain goals through the regulation of immigration.  If you were the decision maker, whom would you admit or deny as an immigrant? What factors are most important in your decision making process?
Activity 4.1: Reasoning the Reasons
Explore the three primary factors for immigrants to be eligible to enter the U.S.
Activity 4.2: Creativity Paired with Facts
Ask students to compare the immigration sentiment expressed in The New Colossus to what you have learned about immigration policy in the United States today.
Activity 5.1: Taking Refuge
Help students to look deeper into what it means to be a refugee or asylum seeker.
Activity 5.2: Understanding the Journeys
In an attempt to reach a closer understanding of the refugee experience, the students will undertake a simulation exercise.
Activity 5.3: Applying for Asylum
To illustrate the difficulty of the process of applying for asylum, the class will attempt to fill out the asylum application in a “language” that students may find somewhat familiar: Pig Latin.
Activity 5.4: A Historical Look at the Law
As a class or in small groups, make a simple visual timeline of Ancient Jewish Law and the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Activity 5.5: Exploring Immigration in Language Classes
Learn more about personal stories of the asylum process
Activity 6.2: Logical Conclusions
Students use media resources to look at Facts and Estimates about Undocumented Immigrants.
Activity 6.3: Current Local Issues
Students take a look at issues surrounding drivers licence restrictions as a current local issue.
Activity 7.3: Going Further
Students compare and reflect on their predictions and the facts learned from the handouts. 
Activity 8.1: Transforming Assumptions
Students look for evidence to support and refute assumtions found in collecting data.
Activity 8.2: Becoming Informed
Students learn about the cities and states that house the greatest number of immigrants and the challenges faced by these places.
Activity 8.3: Making the Connections
Students discuss and learn about the “us” vs. “them” polarization.
Activity 8.4: Going Further
Students discover how different factors affect the "us" "them" dichotmoy by reading two engaging handouts.
Activity 9.1: Dialogue about Dialogue
Students learn what it means to have a dialogue.  Then students engage in an immigration dialogue.
Immigrants: Their Story
Get beyond the statistics to understand the journeys that brought immigrants to Minnesota.  Read the stories of immigrants from Liberia, Somali, Laos, Mexico and Ethiopia.
Journaling: The Human Comedy
Students read an excerpt from The Human Comedy by William Saroyan and journal their observations/reactions, and then share as a class.
Opinions About Immigrants
Students are asked to keep an eye and ear out for information in the media and in their community about immigration and to ask others about the issue. What has the class found? Post questions, opinions, articles and record in notebooks.
Setting the Stage
Integration or assimilation?  Throughout the nation's history the debate has raged.  Use this activity to guide students through quotes, recipes, a quiz, a fact sheet and article - the students will form an opinion about how immigration has flavored the stew of our nation.
Setting the Stage
Transition to Lesson Four.