BAY1-Lessons

Becoming America Year 1 Lessons
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===**Go West, Young Man! Artists Impact on Immigrants to the US in the Mid-1800s **===

Grades 7-12
by Debbie Hartman-McCulley, Madeline English School, Everett || **//And that's the cruel reason why I left old Skibberean. . .//** by Matt Bropy & John Streff, Medford High School || **//Bird's Eye View Map's Landscape//** by Debbie Corleto, McGlynn Middle School ||
 * [[image:bay1-dhmcculley-lesson.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/dhmcculley/index.html"]] || [[image:bay1-mbrophy-lesson.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/medford-unit/mbrophy/index.html"]] || ==[[image:bay1-dcorleto.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/medford-unit/dcorleto/index.html"]]== ||
 * **//Making an educated decision://**
 * //Where Will We Settle in the New World//**
 * //The Legacy of the Irish Famine as Displayed in Music,//**
 * //Art, and Sculpture.//**
 * //A new way to visualize the westward movemen//**t

Navigating the New World: Famine Immigrants Move to Boston
Grades 9-12 by Ilana Ascher, Chelsea High School || **//This Was Chelsea ..//**. by Dave LaFontana, Chelsea High School || **//I Know Nothing://** by Don Valentine, Chelsea High Schcool || **//Tempers and Temperance//** Pete Pappavaselio Chelsea High School ||
 * [[image:bay1-iascher-lesson.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/chelsea-unit/iascher/index.html"]] || [[image:bay1-dlafontana-lesson.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/chelsea-unit/dlafontana/index.html"]] || [[image:bay1-dvalentine-lesson.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/chelsea-unit/dvalentine/index.html"]] || [[image:bay1-ppappavaselio-lesson.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/chelsea-unit/ppappavaselio/index.html"]] ||
 * **//Letters Home//**
 * //Politics in the 1850//**

“Native Americans, Read!”: Responses to Irish Immigration
Grades 7-12 Rebecca Drayer, South Middle School, Braintree || **//Puritan Tears for Fears//** Jamie Wiggin, Braintree High School || //**Snapshot of Native's Treatment**// //**of Early Irish Immigrants**// Michael Larkin, Braintree High School || **//Fighting Your Way//** Phil Krall, Braintree High School ||
 * [[image:rdrayer_lesson_v2.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/334/Student/braintree_v1_20100707115434/braintree/rdrayer/index.html"]] || [[image:jwiggin_lesson.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/334/Student/braintree_v1_20100707115434/braintree/jwiggin/index.html"]] || [[image:mlarkin_lesson.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/334/Student/braintree_v1_20100707115434/braintree/mlarkin/index.html"]] || [[image:bay1-pkrall-lesson.jjpg.jpg link="@http://www.tritec-inc.org/becomingamerica/pkrall/index.html"]] ||
 * **//Taking a Stand on Irish//**
 * //Discrimination//**
 * //to American Acceptance//**

Religious Conflict in Antebellum Boston
Grades 7-12

by Jay Griffin, Medford High School || **//Broad Street Riot://** by Taryn Ross, Medford High School || **//The Price of Freedom://** by Robert D’Agostino, Whittier School, Everett ||
 * [[image:jgriffin_lesson.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/335/Student/medford_v1_20100829123202/medford/griffin/index.htm"]] || [[image:tross_lesson.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/335/Student/medford_v1_20100829123202/medford/ross/index.htm"]] || [[image:bdagostino_lesson.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/335/Student/medford_v1_20100829123202/medford/dagostino/index.htm"]] ||
 * **//The Ursuline Convent Riot of 1834//**
 * //Religious Conflict//**
 * //in Antebellum Boston//**
 * //Deciding About "Alien Passengers"//**

Power of Looms
7-12 || ||  ||  || by Matt Walton || The Immigrant Journey Then and Now by Pat Bagnell || Get to Know Harriet Farley by Aaron Minton || The King of A-Shantee by Tim Jones ||
 * [[image:walton_imgr_indust_thumb.jpg link="@http://w2.pbubuilder.org/PBUFiles/332/Student/poweroflooms_v3_20101204101405/poweroflooms/immgrt_industrialist/index.htm"]]
 * The Rise of The Immigrant Industrialist

Who are the Know-Nothings?
7-12 by Lisa DiSalvatore || **We the Irish: A Story of Exclusion** by Dana-Marie Brown || **Getting to know the Know-Nothings: how to recruit members for a secret society** by Ann Pember ||  ||
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 * **Read, Think and Link to History: Clues to Understanding 19th Century Historical Documents**