N. Tiao

English as a Second Language

WebQuest

Introduction:

The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Through the study of immigration, you will appreciate that all immigrants face the same hopes and challenges that you and your family face. You have finished reading a novel as well as several short stories and poems about recent and established immigrants in the United States. Your role is to investigate current policies and to create new policies that may help immigrants to adapt more easily to the American society

Task:

1. Complete all worksheets.

2. Write a one-page report on your findings.

3. Give an oral presentation of how a character’s assimilation process would improve due to governmental policies (give 3 specific examples from the reading material – novel, short stories, poems).

4. . Cite at least 3 on-line sources where you obtained this information

Process:

Use the 6-step Public Policy format. Complete the handouts given to collect information for each step.

1. Define the social problem

2. Gather evidence

3. Identify causes

4. Evaluate a policy

5. Develop solutions

6. Select best solution

Resources:

Search Engines:

www.AltaVista.com.

www.MetaCrawler.com

www.Yahoo.com/

www.Google.com

www.AskJeeves.com

www.Yahoo.com

www.MSN.com

Web Sites:

The Education of Immigrant Students:

http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/pathways/immigrant_issues/imeduc.html

Immigrant Education:

http://www.idra.org/Newslttr/1996/May/Aurelio.htm#CHIME_Clearinghouse

Immigrant students are underserved:

http://www.urban.org/news/pressrel/pr010111.html

In State Tuition Clears Legislature

http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/english/featurestory/1456.htm

Hundreds Protest CUNY's Racist Purge of Immigrant Students:

http://www.internationalist.org/cunydemo1101.html

Immigrant Students Value School More:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/02.29/ImmigrantStuden.html

New York Times

http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F50B1EF8385F0C768CDDA10894DA404482

Center for Immigration Studies:

http://www.cis.org/http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/Reports/report08entire.html

New York City Official Website

http://www.nyc.gov/html/charter/pdf/report_090501_full.pdf.

Evaluation:

GRADE:	1	2	3	4
Oral Presentation	no knowledge of the uses of PPA - presents no data to support the proposed policy	little knowledge of the uses of PPA.-presents several sources of data in a logical format to support the proposed policy	acceptable amount of knowledge Of the uses of PPA –presents several sources of data in a logical and organized format to support the proposed policy	superior knowledge of the uses of PPA.-presents an exceptional amount of data to support the proposed policy
Research	links not relevant to support the proposed policy	enough links but few support the proposed policy	many links that support the proposed policy	all links support the proposed policy
Report and Worksheets	Incomplete - does not use the conventions of standard written English	complete weak usage of the conventions of standard written English	complete with and acceptable usage of he conventions of standard written English	-complete with superior use of the conventions of standard written English

ELA Standards:

1. Students will read and write for information and understanding

2. Students will read and write for literary response and expression

3. Students will read and write for critical analysis and evaluation

4. Student will speak and listen for social interaction

Conclusion:

This PPA WebQuest will help you understand the difficulties faced by all immigrants in assimilating to the American culture. As Public Policy Analyst you will have identified the issues, researched the current policies, and created an alternative viable policy. As a result of this project you will have learned to identify and improve public policies that affect you as a member of the American society.