Teacher's Notes

Theme:
Immigration, especially from Europe, has been an integral part of our history.

Sub-theme:
As a result of the Great Famine, the Irish emigrated to the United States in huge numbers during the 1840s

Concepts:

• "The Great Famine"
• second-class citizens
• one-crop economy
• Malthusian doctrine
• absentee land ownership

Performance objectives -- this lesson focuses on developing skills at:

• Analyzing an interpretation dealing with a universal cause of poverty
• Interpreting a bar graph concerning U.S. immigration in the 19th century
• Reporting orally on an interview with a descendant of an Irish immigrant
• Doing value analysis of immigration

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