Immigration

Agenda:

• Hand back Native American essays; some observations:
• IDEAS--Remember to answer the question/prompt, and stick to that thesis. Many times examples were given without any true explanation in relation to thesis.
• SENTENCE FLUENCY--Review how to integrate your quotes! You can't simply leave quotes hanging in the air with no set-up or context.
• CONVENTIONS--Cite your sources, always provide a Works Cited page, and write in the present tense unless you are talking about a historical event in the past.
• KNOWLEDGE OF CONTENT--If you wrote an entire essay without referencing anything in the book we studied (or referencing it very little), you lost points...
• Hand in Chapter 5 Questions of The Jungle
• Continue watching The Visitor; after the film, we will have small group discussions

• Here is an article from Slate about contemporary immigration titled The Melting Pot is Broken
• HOMEWORK: Read the above article and write a short response. What is the author saying? Is his claim valid? Why or why not?