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=Becoming America Year 2=

=**Fall Seminar 3**= Thursday, September 30, 2010 Location: Everett High School, 100 Elm Street, Everett Map

Please come in the main doors (the side facing the park), sign in as necessary, and then walk straight back from the front doors (keeping the cafeteria and the curved red wall to your right) to the elevator in the right, back corner. Take the elevator to the 5th floor. When you get off, go left through the library doors to the main area. The TLC is in the Library Workroom (Room 5002).

Note -- this is the **new** high school. Be careful if you are using a GPS. Thanks!

Scheduled topic:
**// Making Data Interesting for Students: Teaching Historical Statistics on America’s Foreign Born //** **// Joseph McCarthy, Ph.D., Suffolk University //**



Readings:

 * 1) // Wendy B. Dickinson et al., "People, Pattern and Place: SAS/GRAPH Data Display of Immigration Activity Across the United States," www2.sas.com/proceedings/ forum2007/142-2007.pdf  //

For more about this seminar, check out the Becoming America Project Blog for Fall Seminar 3!

For a copy of Joe McCarthy's handout "Historical Immigration Statistics Resources" click here (PDF file).

Links to some resources mentioned:
 * One of the best sources of advice on graphical representation is Edward Tufte. His book //The Visual Display of Quantitative Information// is regarded as the definitive work on the subject.
 * GIbson and Lennon, "Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States, 1850-1990": http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/twps0029.html
 * Historical Census Browser http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/
 * UPenn Historical Statistics Research Guide http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/hist/historicalstatistics.html
 * Spartacus Schoolnet (UK site) USA History: Immigration @http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm

See more on Resource Links at our Blog!

**POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS** 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? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **