Week 5 Agenda and Activities- Monday 7/27 and Wednesday 7/29

Topic 2: Immigration

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Background

This week we will learn about the recent debate over immigration in the the United States. We will focus on the DACA program, which aims to protect people who immigrated to the U.S. as children. Those people are still fighting for legal residency status and a pathway to citizenship, but have met with many obstacles.

Objective

Reading:

distinguish the political reasons for supporting or opposing DACA
sequence the Supreme Courts actions on DACA under presidents Obama and Trump

Monday 7/27 Agenda: today we will...

1) Ask yourself the Question of the Day (below)

2) Read an article about the immigration program called DACA and answer comprehension questions

3) Contribute to a discussion after hearing DACA stories

4) Separate complete sentences from sentence fragments; build complex sentences

Question of the Day

Why should a child who is brought to the United States by his or her parents be protected from deportation by the U.S. government?

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