Enduring Understanding Three: Immigration led to the expansion of cities.
DIRECTIONS: Today, you will be writing your paragraph defending the idea that immigration should OR should not be restricted.
Write the month you were born here: april.
January, March, May, July, September and November are odd months: The beginning of your claim will be “Immigration should not be restricted because…”
February, April, June, August, October and December are even months: The beginning of your claim will be “Immigration should be restricted because…”
Using your documents and graphic organizer, write a paragraph that accomplishes the following steps:
State your claim, identifying the reason why immigration should OR should not be restricted.
Immigration
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Our jails, insane asylums and almshouses are filled with this human flotsam [wreckage] and the whole tone of american life, social, moral, and political has been lowered and vulgarized by them. “
Explain how this piece of evidence is an example of your reason. Then explain why this demonstrates immigration should OR should not be restricted.
This supports the claim that immigration should be restricted by showing examples of how immigrants will bring unwanted change. The quote shows that immigrants bring down the lifestyles and values of americans and should be restricted.
Correctly cite (two identifying pieces) a piece of evidence that supports your claim.
Similarly in a debate Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts states”[We] are exposed to but a single danger, and that is by changing the quality of our race and citizenship through the wholesale infusion of races whose traditions and inheritances, whose thoughts and beliefs are wholly alien to ours…There lies the peril at the portals of our land: there is pressing in the tide of unrestricted