Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
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Theme: |
Immigration and Understanding the American Dream
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Grades: |
9 - 12
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Subject: |
Social Studies
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Duration: |
2 class periods (not including time to read novel)
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Standards
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New Jersey State Core Curriculum Standards
Standard 6.1: All students will utilize historical thinking, problem solving and research skills to maximize their understanding of civics, history, geography and economics.
Standard 6.2: All students will know, understand and appreciate the values and principles of American democracy and the rights, responsibilities and roles of a citizen in the nation and the world.
Standard 6.3: All students will demonstrate knowledge of world history in order to understand life and events in the past and how they relate to the present and future.
Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.
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Objectives: |
Students will:
- Read and discuss Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom literally and analytically.
- Discuss how the “American Dream” motivated immigrants and has changed since the beginning of the century to the end of the century.
- Identify the changing groups of immigrants entering the United States over the past 100 years.
- Discuss the issue of illegal immigration in the United States in relation to legal European immigrants and refugees during the past 20 years.
- Use the Internet to find information about refugees from Africa
- Use the Internet to find out what the world community is doing to aid refugees from all parts of the world.
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