k-12 immigration

Immigration is an integral part of what America was, is, and could be. It is what makes all the States different from eachother with a rainbow of cultures and skin tones. It is because of this that immigration is taught to the young people of America. They are taught where they came from.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/immigration/
The website that I found that presents immigration to the younger generation is from Bear River High School in Nevada. It is a suggested teachers plan of the subject. The plan consists of recommended activities for the children to partake in, including a commission hearing where the children will attempt to arrive on Ellis Island and eventually venture out into the Great New World that is America. In order for the class to be able to do the hearing properly they need to look further back into their history into the colonial period and key immigration hot times since that period. This activity is to enable the students to see the key comparisons and differences to the immigration policy of todays world. The activity also allows for the students to understand the immigration policy and see the need for the limitations and rules that are in place, whilst also using the resources to understand why certain cultural groups would migrate to America.

The teaching plan that this teacher has put forward seems to try to get the students to think on their own feet as to why immigration is the way it is in todays world. But the requirements that they have to fulfill in order to pass the activity is to assess why America is the new Land of Milk and Honey. It teaches them about their own heritage and history with the policies and how they link to todays immigration policies, but it does not necesserily teach them about the ways of the World. The students are told that it will broadent their horizons and thoughts, however, it seems to be a covert indoctrination into the patriotism that they have bred into them since birth. "America is the land of oppurtunity, and you are priveleged to be an American!" To teach them the intimacies of immigration backs up the thinking that America is the new promised land. There may be bad points but in the end the majority of the world would rather be in America than in their country of origin. It seems to be a one sided look into history.