Takaki - Chapter 12

This chapter on Mexican immigration to the US during the early 1900s lends itself very clearly to a discussion on today's immigration debate. Although a discussion on this topic is clearly very important, most high school students do not really know where they stand politically. Although I do not want to have an depth discussion on politics itself and the differences between the political ideologies and parties, I do think that it is important that students do some self reflection on their personal views.

In order to keep this more personal for those students who wish to not discuss their views, I will take the class to the computer lab and have them complete a political survey, which has been set up from the Choices Program. In addition, there is a separate survey on immigration issues, which I will also ask students to complete.

Because there will be students who do not wish to share their views with their classmates, or who may not know what their views are, I will let the survey information stop here. However, I will encourage students that if they wish to have such discussions or debates that they can use the information from the survey as means of discovering where it is that they stand and to use that information as a basis for their personal discussions.