US History · Week 34 · The Cold War and Contemporary America
New Neighbors After 1965
Students learn how the Immigration Act of 1965 transformed communities across California and interview a partner about a journey from a source or an imagined family.
- Students will
- Students explain how the Immigration Act of 1965 changed immigration policy and California communities, and use a source to identify what changed and what continued.
- SEL skill
- Ask kind, respectful questions and listen to another person's journey
- What it looks like
- Students practice attunement by asking kind, respectful questions and listening to others' journeys.
- Content focus
- New Neighbors After 1965
- Format
- Role play
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding other people's perspectives and feeling with them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. 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
- 11.11.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.11, item 1)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST3 Use maps and documents to interpret human movement, settlement, frictions between groups, and the spread of ideas and goods. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.2.9-12 Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis, such as charts and maps, with information in a text.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 19: The United States in the 21st Century
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 15: Through Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Immigrant Experience
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 41: Peace, Prosperity, and Progress
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 46: The Widening Struggle
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 58: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Global Age
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More social awareness activities for US History
- Unalienable Rights, Unfinished Promises Social awarenessStudents read the Declaration of Independence alongside the experiences of enslaved people, women, and Native nations and consider how promises look different from different places.
- The Jungle and the Factory Floor Social awarenessStudents read excerpts from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle about working conditions and food safety and practice imagining daily life from a worker's point of view.
- Cities Built by Newcomers Social awarenessStudents map how immigrants and migrants built growing industrial cities divided by race, ethnicity, and class and practice noticing who might feel left out in a group.
- Dust Bowl Migrants Come to California Social awarenessStudents study Dorothea Lange's photographs of Dust Bowl families arriving in California and consider how communities can welcome people in crisis.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.