English 11 · Week 16 · The American Dream and Belonging
Immigration Narratives
Immigrant experiences in American literature.
- Students will
- Students analyze how a narrator's point of view and cultural experience shape an immigration story.
- SEL skill
- Describe a narrator's cultural experience from their point of view
- What it looks like
- Students build empathy for experiences that differ from their own.
- Content focus
- Immigration narratives
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding other people's perspectives and feeling with them, including people from different backgrounds. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- RL.11-12.3: Reading: Literature, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 3
- RL.11-12.1: Reading: Literature, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 1
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.7 Evaluating language choices
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Any fiction
- Popular books named: The House on Mango Street, The Namesake, Enrique's Journey
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 11, Unit 2: The Individual
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 11, Unit 6: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Tales
- HMH Collections Grade 11, Collection 1: Coming to America
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More social awareness activities for English 11
- Foundations of American Voice Social awarenessFounding documents and who they included and excluded.
- Voices of Resistance Social awarenessFrederick Douglass and other voices of resistance.
- Gatsby and Belonging Social awarenessCharacters reinventing themselves to belong.
- Civil Rights Rhetoric Social awarenessLetter from Birmingham Jail and nonviolent persuasion.
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