I have taught about immigration/migration MANY times, in many levels (scroll through some of my previous posts here). It is can be tricky, but it is also VERY important.
I just taught a variation of some of those units in my AP class (here is the unit packet). The main resources were the movie Icebox (from 2019, but sitll relevant!), the book Testigo: La historia de Brayan (I was way for four class days, so my students read it on their own) and a wide variety of songs related to immigration/migration. Feel free to check out the Essential Questions and Assessments in the unit packet as well.
Feel free to peruse what we did in the unit packet (lots of great stuff, including some good input dictados for Icebox), but the main thing I wanted to share is what we did with this New York Times article "¿Qué derechos tienen las personas migrantes en EE. UU.?".
In addition to the obvious goals of acquiring lots of language and communicating (interpretively, interpersonally and presentationally) with each other about the topic, a few of my other goals for this unit were for students to:
- Understand how COMPLICATED immigration is.
- Have empathy for people who are undocumented.
- Learn some facts about things that are happening right now.
My AMAZING students were VERY engaged and learned a TON.
I made this slideshow and this student sheet to delve into the article and make it interactive (students had to work in groups and guess some of the answers).
