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Immigrant Contribution
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9th Grade
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Alicia Betancourt
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This quiz centers on American history and English language arts, specifically analyzing John F. Kennedy's speech "The Immigrant Contribution" and its literary elements. Designed for 9th grade students, the assessment evaluates reading comprehension of informational text, understanding of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos), grammar concepts including sentence structure and independent clauses, and biographical knowledge of President Kennedy. Students need strong analytical skills to identify Kennedy's main arguments about immigration, distinguish between different types of rhetorical appeals in persuasive writing, and classify sentence structures as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. The quiz requires students to comprehend sophisticated vocabulary terms like "assimilation," "naturalization," and "faction" while demonstrating knowledge of historical facts about American immigration patterns and Kennedy's presidency. Students must synthesize information from Kennedy's speech to understand his perspective on the melting pot concept and its limitations for minority groups. Created by Alicia Betancourt, an English teacher in Mexico who teaches grade 9. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a summative evaluation following a unit on Kennedy's presidency and immigration history, or as formative assessment to gauge student understanding of rhetorical analysis skills. Teachers can deploy this quiz as homework to reinforce lessons on persuasive writing techniques, use it as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before deeper discussions of immigration policy, or implement it as review material before standardized testing. The quiz supports standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6 for determining author's point of view and rhetoric, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1 for demonstrating command of grammar conventions, and NCSS.D2.His.1.9-12 for evaluating historical interpretations. This assessment effectively bridges English language arts and social studies curricula, helping students develop critical thinking skills while building content knowledge about American history and democratic ideals.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does Kennedy state are the two main reason for immigrants to come to USA?
common enemy and unity
hopes for freedom and economic opportunity
the spirit of equality and assimilation
the religious pluralism and american dinner table
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In which minority group Kennedy said the "Melting Pot" has failed?
european minority
ill-educated people
every ethnic minority
the negro minority
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What impressed Alexis de Tocqueville according to Kennedy?
The spirit of unity of the nation
The spirit of natural stock of the population
All Americans were descendants of immigrants
The spirit of equality in the American society
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What kind of text , the speech of JFK "The Immigrant Contribution", is ?
To inform and entertain
To Entertaining and Reflect
To persuade and inform
All of the above
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Group of people inside a political party or group, working against the bigger group, is the definition of ?
minority
rebels
faction
cut in parts
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
All immigrants went through a___________ process to become a total citizen in USA.
Naturalization
Immigration
Research
Contribution
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The definition of assimilation is.......
The offspring of an ancestor
Process of becoming a citizen of a nation
descendants of a particular ethnic group
process of adapting to the culture of an adopted country
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
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