Social Studies Assignment for April 12, 2013

Throughout history, most humans have tended to "stay put," or settle and live in the place where they were born. But there have always been people who move from place to place, usually in search of a new start or better life. Early hunters walked their families over gnarly mountain ranges to follow animal herds, ancient sailors built boats to bring their tribes to faraway islands, and farmers in overcrowded lands went looking for open space and fertile soil on the other side of the globe. When we talk about these long-ago movements of people, we call it migration. 

The modern world's a little different, with strict borders between countries. But people still move from one country to another motivated by hopes and dreams, and now we call this immigration.
Fact is, if you live in the United States and are not completely Native American, you or someone in your family is (or was) an immigrant. It's why you have the life you have now, in the place you have it.

Your Task: 

You'll continue your investigation of immigration today by reading an article and answering some questions. The article can be found at this link, but you'll also get a hard copy in class. Your questions can be found at this link.
  
What you will be graded on:

1. You must read and annotate the article. Here's an example of what annotation looks like on a written article. You should have margin notes, you should underline main ideas of each paragraph, and you should circle words you don't know the meaning of.
2. Your answers on the questions (the link is above). Free response questions should be at a 3 or 4 level to earn full credit.

If you finish early:

Use this article to complete the bonus questions available at this link. Completing questions 1-3 will earn you $300, and completing all questions (1-5) will earn you $500. You can do any of this work from home, too.

ps.

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