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Unit Topic/ Title: Hispanic Immigrants in the 21st Century: DACA Laws
Standards: USHC-7.6: Analyze the causes and consequences of social and cultural changes in
postwar America, including educational programs, the consumer culture and expanding
suburbanization, and demographic patterns in American society.
USHC-8.5: Summarize key political and economic issues of the last twenty-five years, including
immigration.
Essential Question: How does immigration policies in today’s society affect our daily lives?
Real World Connection: In the 21st century immigration policies are constantly changing all
around the world and affect the lives of so many families, including many of our friends and
classmates that attend this school.
Learning Design:
E.L.I.T.E. Start – Students will describe what they already know about the DACA laws.
Individual Reading – Students will individually read a news article and take Cornell
notes. While students are reading their news article I will show the students a short video
on DACA.
Group Activity – Students will work together to talk about a DACA in a Fishbowl
activity.
Exit Slip – complete a KWL chart about what they learned about DACA.
Classroom Geography: The students are arranged in groups of three equally spaced throughout
the classroom.
Lesson Layout in minutes:
Announcements: 5 minutes
E.L.I.T.E. Start: 5 minutes
Individual Reading: 20 – 30 minutes
Group Activity: 30 – 40 minutes
Exit Slip: 5 – 10 minutes
Total: 90 minutes
IEP: For my student(s) who have an IEP, I will need to provide those student(s) with the special
education and related services as listed in that student’s IEP. This will include all of the
necessary supplementary aids & services and any program modifications that the IEP team at
Lexington School District Two and Airport High School has identified as necessary for each of
the student(s) to advance appropriately toward his or her IEP goals. In order to complete these
IEP goals, these student(s) will be involved in & progress in the general curriculum, and
participate in other school activities.
Lesson Description: To connect the students to the topic that they will be learning today I will
focus their ELITE Start question as a pre-assessment by asking them what they already know
about the DACA immigration laws passed by President Obama in 2012. After I retain feedback
about what the students already know about DACA, students will be assigned a news article on
DACA so that they can get a better understanding about the DACA laws passed by President
Obama and why President Trump is trying to repeal it. While each student is reading the news
article they are to take Cornell notes and answer questions to guide them on the right path for the
Fishbowl activity that they will be taking part in during the second part of class. While the
students are taking their Cornell notes I will show a 3 minute video imbedded in the original
news article so that they can hear the story of a Hispanic immigrant originally protected under
the DACA laws. During the second half of the class the students will arrange the desks into an
inner and outer circle. Before the students get started on the Fishbowl activity I will randomly
assign the students into either the inner or outer circle and go over the rule of how a Fishbowl
strategy works. Once all of the students are seated at their assigned area I will provide a topic(s)
that will be discussed by the inner circle for the first ten minutes while the students in the outer
circle listen. After the first ten minutes the students in the inner circle will invite the students in
the outer circle to join the inner circle discussion for the next 10 to 15 minutes. After the
students finish discussing the first topic I will have several students from the outer circle trade
places with the students in the inner circle to lead the discussion of the second topic for the next
ten minutes before inviting the rest of the class to participate in the discussion. The discussion
topics are: Part One: Why is our current president wanting to dissolve DACA and come up with
his own policy? Part Two: What changes do you think President Trump should make to ensure
that the immigrants protected under DACA are still protected under the new immigration laws?
During the last five to ten minutes I will have the students fill out a KWL chart for an EXIT Slip
so that I can get academic feedback about what they already knew and what they learned about
the lesson on DACA.
What is Daca and who are the Dreamers?
Here is everything you need to know about the program that gives
temporary protection to undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as
children
@Joannawalters13
Thu 14 Sep 2017 11.30 EDTFirst published on Mon 4 Sep 2017 13.04 EDT
The Trump administration announced last week that it planned to scrap Daca,
the program that gives temporary protection to undocumented migrants who
arrived in the US as children.
Attorney general Jeff Sessions said the US would end Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals in March 2018, throwing almost 800,000 people into
turmoil and fear. Congress was given up to six months to find a legislative
alternative, after Sessions announced that new applications would no longer
be accepted.
So what is Daca, who are the people affected and what will happen to them?
What is Daca?
Daca is a federal government program created in 2012 under Barack Obama to
allow people brought to the US illegally as children the temporary right to live,
study and work in America. Those applying are vetted for any criminal history
or threat to national security and must be students or have completed school
or military service. If they pass vetting, action to deport them is deferred for
two years, with a chance to renew, and they become eligible for basics like a
driving license, college enrollment or a work permit.
The administration announced last week that it would begin “an orderly,
lawful wind down” of Daca, including “the cancellation of the memo that
authorized this program”, which was sent from homeland security secretary
Janet Napolitano to immigration chiefs in 2012, telling them not to enforce
deportation of Dreamers. Trump gave Congress six months to come up with a
legislative solution. Because Obama created the Daca program as an
executive policy decision, Trump had the power simply to reverse the policy.
He indicated that the government will “generally not take actions” to remove
law-abiding Daca recipients.
Technically, as their statuses lapse they could be deported and sent back to
countries many have no familiarity with. It is still unclear whether this would
happen. Fear had been rising in the run-up to last week’s announcement.
Those with work permits expiring between 5 September 2017 and 5 March
2018 will be allowed to apply for renewal by 5 October.
In a speech in August 2016, in North Carolina, when talking about poverty and
the elusiveness of the so-called American dream for many US citizens, Trump
indirectly criticized Daca and its beneficieries, saying: “We want our children
to be Dreamers, too.” After becoming president, Trump said he wanted to
“work something out” for Dreamers. “We don’t want to hurt those kids,” he
said. “We love the Dreamers.” On the day the end of Daca was announced, he
said: “I have advised the department of homeland security that Daca
recipients are not enforcement priorities unless they are criminals, are
involved in criminal activity, or are members of a gang.”
The states in the suit are: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa,
Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.