Latino Immigration WebQuest
Please write the answers in your HJ
Mexican Immigration:
Go to http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/17.html
1. Remember when we studied Westward Expansion (Oh what fun! Those games! Trips to the museum! “This land is your land, This land is my land!” The sad parts about how the Native Americans and Chinese were treated –and the happy parts about how they rose above). Now also remember that we studied the Mexican American War and America gained California, Arizona, New Mexico, and other states during this time (we were getting bigger and bigger). This will be important to remember when you do this task. Read the first few paragraphs at this website and draw a timeline that starts in 1850 and goes until 1964 - list all of the key events. It should include: push factors, what the Mexicans did when they came here, why they came here, why they were pushed out, and when they were invited in again – all with dates attached (1850, 1880, 1910, 1920, 1924, 1930, 1942, 1964).
2. What was the Bracero Program? Why did it start? What changed because of it? How were workers treated?
3. Why did the American government “flip flop” on it’s immigration policy towards Mexico?
4. Go to: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_51_3.html
Read the story. Write two postcards “back home to Mexico” about two different experiences that Juana Gallegos went through.
Puerto Rican Migration:
Go to http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/cuban3.html
5. Why don’t we call it immigration when Puerto Ricans come here? In what ways is it like immigration and in what ways is it different?
6. When did the most Puerto Ricans start coming to America and why?
7. Why didn’t they come sooner?
8. Where did Puerto Ricans settle when they came to America?
9. What was life like in Puerto Rican communities here?
10. What were three political movements that Puerto Ricans started here?
11 . Create your own web quest questions! Pick ONE of any of the below immigrant groups, go to the websites I list, and write three questions that you would have included on this web quest about them. Explain why you think they are important questions to ask.
Dominicans: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-Dr/Dominican-Americans.html
Cubans: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/cuban5.html
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Feminism Webquest
FEMINIST WEB QUEST
I. Go to: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/the-faqs/faq-roundup/
1. Scroll down to the questions. Look around – pick a question anywhere on the site and answer that you find fascinating. Which one did you pick and explain why.
2. How would you respond to this person’s answer?
3. What would you agree or disagree with?
What would you add?
II. Go to: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/barnes-sotomayor-affirmative-action/
4. According to this website, how is Judge Sotomayor portrayed? What are some of the descriptions? Note: Affirmative Action is when a school or job accepts you partly because you are a minority, and your group was discriminated against in the past.
5. Go to: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/05/29/racism-sexism-and-sotomayor-in-a-few-easy-to-read-bullet-points/
How does this feminist argue against the other two opinions you just read in questions 3 and 4? What does she say? Why does this make her a feminist? Note: “Tokenism” means you accept someone just because they are a minority or diverse and you can say “See! We accept diverse people!” even though it is just a shallow acceptance.
IV. Check out some of these feminist websites. They are all different feminist websites. Pick one:
http://www.msmagazine.com/
http://www.bust.com/
http://www.bamboogirl.com/current/index.html
http://www.girlcomic.net/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.teenvoices.com/
6. Which ones do you like and why?
7. What things can you see and find on this website?
8. What do you wish was different, if anything?
9. You can answer this question or the next one. If you were to make a feminist magazine or “zine” what would you include in it? What would you leave out, if anything?
Or
9. Write up a scenario – it can be about anything. Something on the news, something that happened to you, something you observed, something you once read in a book, something you once studied in history class, something from your imagination (but it has to do with the real world). Describe what a feminist would say about it. Why is that a feminist perspective?
I. Go to: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/the-faqs/faq-roundup/
1. Scroll down to the questions. Look around – pick a question anywhere on the site and answer that you find fascinating. Which one did you pick and explain why.
2. How would you respond to this person’s answer?
3. What would you agree or disagree with?
What would you add?
II. Go to: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/28/barnes-sotomayor-affirmative-action/
4. According to this website, how is Judge Sotomayor portrayed? What are some of the descriptions? Note: Affirmative Action is when a school or job accepts you partly because you are a minority, and your group was discriminated against in the past.
5. Go to: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/05/29/racism-sexism-and-sotomayor-in-a-few-easy-to-read-bullet-points/
How does this feminist argue against the other two opinions you just read in questions 3 and 4? What does she say? Why does this make her a feminist? Note: “Tokenism” means you accept someone just because they are a minority or diverse and you can say “See! We accept diverse people!” even though it is just a shallow acceptance.
IV. Check out some of these feminist websites. They are all different feminist websites. Pick one:
http://www.msmagazine.com/
http://www.bust.com/
http://www.bamboogirl.com/current/index.html
http://www.girlcomic.net/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.teenvoices.com/
6. Which ones do you like and why?
7. What things can you see and find on this website?
8. What do you wish was different, if anything?
9. You can answer this question or the next one. If you were to make a feminist magazine or “zine” what would you include in it? What would you leave out, if anything?
Or
9. Write up a scenario – it can be about anything. Something on the news, something that happened to you, something you observed, something you once read in a book, something you once studied in history class, something from your imagination (but it has to do with the real world). Describe what a feminist would say about it. Why is that a feminist perspective?
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