DAY+1

Defining Nativism
First you will participate in a Silent Conversation to activate your prior knowledge on attitudes towards immigrants today. You will create new technology accounts so you can communicate and collaborate with peers and the teacher. Lastly, you will customize your wikispace with personal information and a photo. ====SWBAT create and defend a position on discrimination of immigrants in the U.S. today.====
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 * ====Technology Objectives:====

SWBAT create a gmail account and compose an e-mail using gmail.
Tasks: 1) Activator - Silent Conversation 2) Create a wikispace and gmail email 3) Customize your wikispace

= 1) Activator: Silent Conversation =
 * **Respond** to the question in the discussion tab in __**this wiki**__ label it: RESPONSE ONE :

Question: Do you believe that there is prejudice against immigrants today? Provide examples from personal experience and prior knowledge to support your answer (think of anything you have heard about how immigrants are treated).


 * After the class responds, **read 7 posts** from your peers. Label another post RESPONSE TWO. Write what you think the Majority of the class believes, and then state if your opinion has changed or not. If so, write about why and how you changed your mind? (See the example in the Discussion Tab)

As a class we will discuss the important parts of the conversation. We all have prior assumptions and prior knowledge that we all carry with us from our culture about immigrants. This depends on what we gather from our own experiences, the news, our friends, our families, our teachers, etc. Furthermore, these assumptions may be prejudiced or not based on where we get our ideas from. We will revisit our ideas at the end of the lessons to come, and it will be interesting to see if our ideas or assumptions still hold true, or perhaps you will change your mind.

= 2) Create a wiki space and gmail email = >
 * **Create** a Wiki Space
 * **Name it:** ImmigrationLesson (Your First Initial and Last Name).wikispaces.com
 * Example: ImmigrationLessonJDoe.wikispaces.com


 * Choose a password you will remember, but one you don't use for other private accounts just in case someone gets a hold of your password.
 * On the Home Page of your wiki, **write** your full name (First and Last).
 * Go to Google.com and **create an appropriate gmail address** using your first and last name as part of the address. This is a professional account that you can later use when applying for jobs, internships or for handing papers in to teachers
 * it must not use slang
 * be inappropriate
 * use "cute" language
 * It should be something like: JDoe@gmail.com


 * In your Home Page of your wiki, write your new gmail email address.
 * Send yourself an email from your new gmail email address with the following:
 * 1) the link to your wiki page
 * 2) the Password to your new wiki page
 * 3) the Password to your gmail email

=3) Homework=
 * **Customize your Wiki** by adding a photo of yourself and writing 2-3 sentences about you - your interests, your family, what grade you are in, or what you plan to do out after high school, for example.