Teacher: Mrs. Alana Z.

Bilanski
Lesson Title and Grade Level: 3rd Grade
Unit Theme: Diversity
Lesson Topic: Immigration
Context for Learning
Student Teaching:
Demographics and
classroom can be obtains
through BEDS.

Central Focus

Complete the chart below to include demographic information including learning needs, number of
students and supports and accommodations pertinent to the IEP goals. Consider the variety of
learners in your class who may require different strategies/supports or
accommodations/modifications to instruction or assessment (e.g. students with IEPs or 504 plans,
English language learners, struggling readers underperforming students or those with gaps in
academic knowledge, and/or gifted students needing greater support or challenge).
Learning Needs Category

Number of Students

Supports, Accommodations,
Modifications, and/or
Pertinent IEP Goals

Immigration
Goal: To understand immigration and the factors that contribute to immigration.

Content
Standards/Objectives

Objective one:
Given a video on Ellis Island, contribute to a classroom discussion and
graphic organizer, identifying three reasons why immigrants come to
America.
Objective two:
Given the book Coming To America; An Immigration story, Students will
discuss the experiences of immigrants when they arrive, adequately
explaining both positive and negative points.
Objective three:
Given what they have learned about immigration, students will assume the
identity of an immigrant and write a monologue of their experience
coming through Ellis Island, referencing the video and book in at least two
ways.

Common Core Content Standard

Learning Objective

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits,
motivations, or feelings) and explain how their
actions contribute to the sequence of events

Objective three:
Given what they have learned about
immigration, students will assume the identity
of an immigrant and create a monologue of
their experience coming through Ellis Island.
Objective one:
Given a video on Ellis Island, contribute to a
classroom discussion, identifying three reasons
why immigrants come to America.
Objective two:
Given the book Coming To America; An
Immigration story, Students discuss the
experiences of immigrants when they arrive,
adequately explaining both positive and
negative points.

CSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7
Use information gained from illustrations (e.g.,
maps, photographs) and the words in a text to
demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g.,
where, when, why, and how key events occur).

Include New York State Learning Standards/Common Core Standards appropriate for grade
level/content on the left and construct a specific/measureable objective that matches the standard in
the column on the right.
All objectives must be assessed in the lesson plan. Include at least one objective that
addresses academic language (vocabulary, syntax, discourse). Language functions for art may
include:
Professor will include academic language from edTPA assessment: register, fluency,
language demands.

Vocabulary/Concepts/Langu
age

Immigration, Emigration, culture

This is an important lesson because it teaches students about diversity and different cultures, as well
as the different reasons immigrants come to America.

Rationale
Essential Questions
(Formative Questions)

What is Immigration?
Why do people choose to come to America?
What do immigrants experience when then get to America?

Assessments:
Running records, observation checklists
Type of assessment

Formative or
Summative

Description of
assessment

Modifications to the assessment

so that all students could
demonstrate their learning.

Evaluation Criteria - What evidence

of student learning (related to the
learning objectives and central focus)
does the assessment provide?

Examples include: teacher

observation, discussion,
questions, project rubric,
entry/exit ticket,
presentation rubric, essay
rubric, checklist, student
self evaluation

What materials will you use to

modifications to assesments.and
also based on the lesson. Conetxt
of the students
Who are the students who are
struggling and what are the
students going to do that have
excelled at the lesson.

List specific objectives. All lesson plan

objectives must appear in this column.
Provide evidence of the point in the lesson
that clearly identifies instruction (how and
why of the lesson)

Only list necessary modifications not

all assessments will require
modifications.

Formative

Students
will
watch a video on
Ellis Island and
identify
three
reason
via
discussion, why
immigrants

Objective one:
Given a video on Ellis Island,
contribute to a classroom discussion
and graphic organizer, identifying
reasons why immigrants come to
America.

Formative

Summative

come to America
Students
will
contribute to a
graphic
organizer.
Objective two:
Given the book Coming To America;
An Immigration story, Students
discuss the experiences of
immigrants when they arrive,
adequately explaining both positive
and negative points.

Teacher will read

the book
Coming to
America and
discuss the
characters
experience when
immigrating to
America,
Students will
write and
perform a
monologue
taking on the
identity of an
immigrant and
explaining

Objective three:
Given what they have learned about
immigration, students will assume
the identity of an immigrant and
write a monologue of their
experience coming through Ellis
Island.

Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks

Procedure

Teacher will:

Anticipatory Set
__10___ minutes

Brainstorming, Assessing Prior

Knowledge, Do Now, Question
of the day, literature,

We are going to be
learning about

Introduce topic

Students will:

Watch video on
Ellis Island
https://www.youtub

Modifications (RTI/UDL
Strategies)

think/pair/share, group
activity, visual or video

immigration, many of
you may have heard
the work immigrant!

Define:
An immigrant is
someone who comes
into this country from
another country.

Learning Tasks and

Instructional
Strategies
___15__ minutes
Demonstration, Guided
Practice,
Journals, Critique, Activity,
Work Time (for example)
This section should be
separated into individual rows
as needed.
Consider transitions: supply
distribution and clean up.

e.com/watch?
v=u4wzVuXPznk
Contribute to the
graphic organizer.

Explain Ellis Island,

we are going to
watch a video to
learn a little more.
Ask students to
answer discussion
question on why
they believe
people came to
America

Read aloud
Coming to
America, An
Immigration Story
Discuss what it
was like coming
through Ellis
Island.
Discuss the
challenges
immigrants may

Listen actively.
Contribute to
discussion.

have faced.
Independent
Practice/Exploration
of Concepts
__20___ minutes

Practice/implement skills;
cooperative learning; group
work, etc.

Consider transitions: supply

distribution and clean up.

Closure
___5__ minutes
Share understanding of the
concepts (journal, verbal

Instruct students
that they will be
taking on an
identity of an
immigrant.
Handout passports
of immigrants with
information on why
they came here,
what country they
are from and their
age.
Instruct students to
write a short
monologue telling
the class a little
about their
immigrant
personas and the
reasons they came
to and the
experiences they
had coming to
America.
Record students
monologues and
create a video of
the presentations.
Compile video into
one presentation.
Instruct students to
watch the video
and reflect on what

Write a short
monologue
explaining their
immigrant
persona, the
reason why the
person came to
America and their
experience once
they came here.

Perform their
monologues.

Reflect on the
process of creating
the monologues

share-out, exit slips, etc)

it felt like to be an
immigrant coming
through Ellis Island

and becoming
those personas.

Instructional Resources, Materials and References: (Including all images used.):

Video on Ellis Island
Graphic Organizer
Passports
Video Camera
TV/Computer for playback
Paper
Pens

Rationale and Reflection/Commentary:

1-Rationale Prior to Teaching:
Prior to teaching this lesson I really want students to understand the many reasons for immigration. In addition to
understanding the reasons why groups immigrate, it is important that they understand that a variety of groups came
her and that essentially all of us are descendants of immigrants. At the conclusion of this lesson Id like students to
understand the experience of coming through Ellis Island as well as the challenges immigrants faced.
2-Reflection/Commentary After Teaching:

What influenced your decisions/choices (strategies, materials, activities, assessments, etc.)

What were the outcomes of the lesson/student learning
Self- Reflection what would you do differently