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 * Abstract:** Students will learn about the reality of immigrating to the US from another country. They will practice taking the perspective of a recent immigrant. They will formulate questions and actually interview an immigrant from their community. Students will take at least one digital photo of their interview subject and incorporate that photo into a Word document which will also include the interview questions and answers. Adapted from [| PBS Teachers Website]=====


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 * Context: This is a Social Studies lesson for 4-6th grade ** **Description of Learning Episode:** ** Students will view, //La Ciudad,// a documentary about immigrants from Mexico. They will predict what might happen to the central character in the course of his journey. They will practice taking his perspective. Students will formulate questions that they might like to ask recent immigrants. Sample questions could include: **=====

7. What was your first impression of America?
Students will then find a recent immigrant from their community who consents to be interviewed and photographed. They will come to the interview prepared with a list of questions and a digital camera. Students will interview and photograph their subject. Finally, the students will download their pictures and learn to insert them into a Word document with text. The interview questions and answers will be recorded in the document along with the pictures.

Students will share their interviews with the class, and the class will **reflect** on the similarities and differences of the immigrants' experiences as well as how their interview subjects' experience was similar or different from the immigrant in //La Ciudad.

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