Read Kansas! Middle School - M-25 The Hmong Migration
This lesson explores the reasons one group of Southeast Asians, the Hmong, migrated to Kansas. Students will analyze a primary source artifact (a textile story cloth). Students will use historical thinking skills to "read" the artifact. They will read a brief essay about the Hmong and answer the question they raised from reading the artifact. Then they will record a piece of their personal, family, class, or community history in a visual medium and have other students "read" their story. This lesson is designed to take two class periods.
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Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards
Standard #4 Societies experience continuity and change over time.
- 4.1: The student will recognize and evaluate continuity and change over time and its impact on individuals, institutions, communities, states, and nations.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards
- RH.7.2: The student will determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
- W.7.7: The student will conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
- SL.7.1 (a-d): The student will engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.