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From Trinidad to Brooklyn: Stories of Resilience
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    Brooklyn, NY — June 7, 2025: Portrait of Sherwin Williams, 37, at his street stall for fruit, Disturbance Ital Market, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn on Saturday morning. Photo: Anna Watts for Documented.

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      Subject English Language Arts — Reading Standards for Informational Text • Social Studies — Current Events, Immigration
      Grade Level Grades 8-12
      Resource Type Lesson Plan
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      Available in Spanish, English-Language Learners (ELL)
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      State-specific
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      About This Lesson

      This two-day high school lesson uses Ralph Thomassaint Joseph‘s article about Sherwin Williams’ migration story from Documented NY as an entry point for students to understand the emotional complexity of migration experiences. After analyzing his journey from Trinidad to Brooklyn, students use objects as symbols to represent and share deeper insights about migration, identity, and resilience within their own families.

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      September 23, 2025
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      Standards

      Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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      Read texts by using reading strategies (i.e., prior knowledge, identify key vocabulary words, context clues, main ideas, supporting details, and text features: pictures, maps, text boxes).
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      analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on the past and describe their impact on the present, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns and shaped the distribution of culture groups today; and
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      Read for a specific purpose (i.e., detect cause & effect relationships, compare & contrast information, identify fact v. opinion, and author bias).
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      investigate and connect examples of choices and consequences with contemporary issues.
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      investigate and connect examples of choices and consequences with contemporary issues.
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      make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
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      evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
      Read More About 1.4.G

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