Concepts and Skills

Students will examine how massive immigration, forced immigration, changing roles for women, and internal migration led to new social patterns and conflicts

Students will examine the formation and growth of New York City Chinatown as a result of massive Chinese immigration to the U.S. in an historical perspective

Students will study changing roles for women in the ethnic Chinese community

Concepts: change; interdependence; multiculturalism; identity, social order; equality, conflict

Skills: critical thinking skills, such as analyzing, prioritizing, generalizing, and evaluating; literacy skills, communication and presentation skills

Students will use demographic information, mapping exercises, photographs, interviews, population graphs, church records, newspaper accounts, and other sources to conduct case studies of particular groups in the history of the State or nation and classify information according to type of activity: social, political, economic, cultural, or religious

Students will use demographic information, government records, mapping exercises, photographs, interviews, population graphs, and other sources to conduct case study of the history of New York City Chinatown, and envision its future in the social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives

Concepts: identity; equality; discrimination; stereotyping

Skills: critical thinking skills; graphic skills; map skills; communication skills; literacy skills

Students will compare in graphs, charts, and written reports the ways groups transmit values and traditions from one generation to another; appraise the influence of these groups on American society and culture

Students will complete a research project where graphs, charts, drawings, and/or computer drawings will be used in the written report outlining the plan to revitalize Chinatown in New York City

Concepts: tradition; value; choice, change

Skills: Critical thinking skills drawing skills; writing skills; library and Internet research skills