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Becoming America Year 2
=Fall Seminar 1= // Last Updated 9/22/10 // Thursday, September 16, 2010 Location: Ferryway School, 150 Cross Street, Malden Map

Please click on your grade level conceptual question to post your reflection after the seminar. Overarching Focus: How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS**
 * ** Grade K-3 **

**Scheduled Topic:** **//Almond-Eyed Celestials and Coolie Labor: Portrayals of Asian Immigrants in the Massachusetts Press, 1870 to 1910//** Patricia A. Reeve, Ph.D., Suffolk University

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Presentation Notes:

Some links to pages with information on what was covered in Prof. Reeve's presentation.
 * Who Built the Railroad Lesson Plan
 * Mass Moments - Chinese workers arrive in North Adams
 * Chinese in Massachusetts their experiences and contributions
 * PBS special on Becoming American - the Chinese Experience
 * United States vs. Wong Kim Ark, information from Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Instittute
 * Thomas Nast cartoons about Chinese immigrants
 * Wikipedia entry on Denis Kearney
 * Information on the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin from Mass AFL-CIO
 * Class and community: the industrial revolution in Lynn By Alan Dawley

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 * Readings:**
 * 1) "//Chinese Exclusion Act [including Census Data]//" Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (2000) http://0-www.credoreference.com.library.law.suffolk.edu/entry/galeus/chinese_exclusion_act pp. 1-2 (Accessed May 24, 2010).
 * 2) Anna Pegler-Gordon, "//Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy//," American Quarterly Vol. 58, No. 1 (March 2006): 51 - 77.
 * 3) //Chinese Equal Rights League. Appeal of the Chinese Equal Rights League to the People in the United States for Equality of Manhood// (Chinese Equal Rights League, New York, 1892), 1 - 9.