Students then interview someone who has immigrated to the United States or to another country to further explore the modern-day immigrant experience. Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Young Immigrants Find a Hard New Land. Explore, in a round-table discussion, issues related to immigration and the obstacles that immigrants often encounter. Develop a list of interview questions to use in an interview of someone they know who has immigrated to the United States or to another country.
Students then share their answers.
Tell students that they will be interviewing someone they know who immigrated to the United States or to another country. As a class, develop a list of interview questions to ask on the classroom blackboard, focusing on the experience of immigrating, the obstacles that he or she has encountered, the successes that he or she has found, and whether or not their perceptions of the country to which he or she immigrated has changed. Each student interviews a person who has immigrated to the Untied States or to another country using the interview questions developed in class as a basic set of questions. Students should be encouraged to ask questions beyond those developed in class as they arise. If students wish to tape their interview, they should make sure that the tape begins with the student asking for the interviewee s permission to tape the interview and the interviewee agreeing.