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The history of California is rich with ethnic, social, and cultural diversity, economic energy,
geographic variety, and growing civic community. The study of California history in the fourth
grade provides students with foundational opportunities to learn in depth about their state,
including the people who live here, and how to become engaged and responsible citizens.
The 2016 Framework includes the following:
The Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asians (predominantly Sikhs), and other
immigrants of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the
twentieth provided a new supply of labor for California’s railroads, agriculture, and
industry and contributed as entrepreneurs and innovators, especially in agriculture.
This clearly allows for teaching Korean American history and showing the Arirang Classroom
DVD that includes four lessons and interviews. See http://arirangeducation.com/main.
Grade Five – United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation
Standard 5.5 Students explain the causes of the American Revolution
Students could compare the American Independence Movement with the Korean Independence
Movement.
Standard 5.8 Students trace the colonization, immigration, and settlement patterns of the
American people from 1789 to the mid-1800s, with emphasis on the role of economic incentives,
effects of the physical and political geography, and transportation systems.
The 2016 Framework includes the following:
What did the West mean for the nation’s politics, economy, social organization, and
identity? The Framework mentions the following immigrants from Asia, including China,
Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and India in search of labor in gold mines and farming.
Grade Eight – United States History and G eography: Growth and Conflict
The New Nation’s Westward Expansion
Standard 8.12 (7) Identify the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contributions of
immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; explain the ways in which new social and
economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst growing
cultural diversity; and discuss the new wave of nativism.
The Framework discusses the waves of immigrants and migrants to the American West in the
19 th century.
The 2016 Framework includes the following:
They also encountered immigrants from Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, the
Philippines, and India, in search of labor in gold mines and farming.
Students could do research on famous Koreans who settled in the United States, such as Ahn
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