Every Day is a Holiday & Midterm Exam

I hope you all enjoyed the documentary, "Every Day is a Holiday." If you missed it, you can find the link to the video below.

Link to Video

The Midterm Exam will be on Wednesday, 10/16. It will consist of three (3) essay questions that will cover broad themes of immigration and ethnic history. The questions will require you to include evidence from more than one chapter of the textbook. The questions will take 15 minutes to answer on average.

The questions from last year were

1. What are the three myths of American immigration, and what are the real "laws" or tendencies?
2. Outline key immigration legislation up to World War II, and explain the what, when, and why of it.
3. What factors contribute to the cultural persistence of an ethnic group, and what factors lead to loss of cultural identity/assimilation? (give examples)

We can use these questions or create new ones on Monday when we review.

Ancestry Project documents are due in class on Monday, 10/21.

Happy Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day. Here's the article we talked about in class.