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Objectives:
Day 1
Students will read Soo Hoo Lem Kong's Declaration
of Nonimmigrant Alien document and learn how to
use depth and complexity icons. Students will use the
icons to identify details, ethical issues, big ideas,
and unanswered questions in the text.
Day 2
Students will apply depth and complexity icons to Soo
Hoo Lem Kong's Interview to Enter the U.S. Reader's
Theater (a script of his interview). Using the icons,
they will identify details, ethical issues, big ideas,
and unanswered questions about Soo Hoo Lem Kong's experience
and record them on Soo Hoo Lem Kong's frame.
Motivation:
Ask your students to define "immigration."
Explain that when immigrants came to the United States,
they were required to have papers to enter the country
and be interviewed by government officials. Ask students
what questions they feel would be important to ask a
person immigrating to the United States.
Procedure:
Day 1
- 1. Introduce the four depth and complexity icons
and their meanings. Have each student fold an 8½
by 11 inch piece of paper into four squares. Have
students follow you on the overhead. In the top left
squares, have them draw the Details icon and then
ask them to define "Details." Then have
them draw the Ethics icon in the bottom left squares,
and ask them to define "ethics." (You may
have to help them define "ethics" by giving
an example of an ethical issue.) Continue in the same
manner for Big Ideas and Unanswered Questions. Some
sample definitions are below.
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Details:
facts, features, clues |
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Big Ideas:
main idea, summary, conclusion |
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Ethics: biases,
controversies, dilemmas traits |
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Unanswered Questions:
puzzles, unknowns, something unexplained, missing
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- Introduce Soo Hoo Lem Kong's Declaration of Nonimmigrant
Alien document. Explain that this document was required
for entrance into the United States.
- Read the document together. As you are reading,
stop as you come to information that relates to details,
ethics, big ideas, and unanswered questions. Have
students record this information in the correct icon
squares on their papers.
Closure:
Ask the students to identify:
1. details about Chinese immigration that they found
in the text.
2. one ethical issue about Chinese immigration found
in the text.
3. a big idea about Chinese immigration found in the
text.
4. one unanswered question found in the text.
· Ask each student to pair with a neighbor.
· Ask the two students in the pair to share
what they've learned with one another and to be prepared
to share with the class.
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