University of Minnesota Immigration History Resource Center
https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/research/immigrant-stories/toolkits
Making an Immigrant Story: Curriculum for English Language Learners
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1eIDteoJgugSTY3eTRwdUw0WW8/view
Making an Immigrant Story: High School Currriculum
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1eIDteoJgugb1NyWHl1TjNoS0E/view
Complete lesson plans for teaching Richard Blanco’s immigration poem, “Translation for Mamá” from The Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community, a project developed by the Academy of American Poets.
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/incredible-bridges-translation-mama-richard-blanco
Poem in English and Spanish. Includes video of Richard Blanco reading the poem.Complete lesson plans for teaching Juan Felipe Herrera”s “Every Day We Get More Illegal” from the Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community, a project developed by the Academy of American Poets.
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/incredible-bridges-every-day-we-get-more-illegal-juan-felipe-herrera
Poem in English. Includes video of Juan Felipe Herrera reading the poem.If It Were My Home:
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/
Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32057601
Toolkit for educators for promoting empathy from the Ashoka Change Maker Schools
https://startempathy.org/resources/toolkit/
Greencard Voices:
Farhat Sadat: https://www.greencardvoices.com/speakers/farhat-sadat/
Farhat is a high school student from AghanistanKarelin: https://www.greencardvoices.com/speakers/karelin/
Karelin is a high school student from GuatemalaNathaniel Valera: https://www.greencardvoices.com/speakers/nathanael-valera/
Nathaniel is a high school student from MexicoArau, S. 2004. A day without a Mexican. Xenon Pictures.
Chavez, L. 1998. Shadowed Lives: Undocumented immigrants in American society. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Urrea, L. 1993. Across the Wire: Life and hard times on the Mexican border. New York: Anchor Books.
Online Resources in Learners’ Mother Tongues/Heritage Languages, Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults (LESLLA.org: https://www.leslla.org/resources-in-mother-tongues)
NPR, “Employers Struggle With Hiring Undocumented Workers: 'You Cannot Hire American Here'”:
https://www.npr.org/tags/170688633/undocumented-immigrants
Motus Monologues:
https://www.motustheater.org/motus-monologues-podcast
Somali Refugee Now Directing Seattle Clinic that Treated Her as a Child:
Why a Grandma Takes Asylum Seekers into Her Home: "I'm Doing it Because it's the Right Thing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1a0PsNcVY0
Meet The 8-Year-Old Refugee Who Won New York State’s Chess Championship | NBC Nightly News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJfZ-JMal4
Spoken word artist Muna Abdulahi reading her poem “The Unwritten Letter from my Immigrant Parent”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsWWmCI1bM&feature=youtu.be
Empathy for Immigrants (appropriate for classroom):
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/201809/empathy-immigrants
Teaching Students to Consider Immigration with Empathy: an Association of American Colleges & Universities article by Miguel Vasquez
Understanding Immigration: Exercises in Empathy & Advocacy for Families from Doing Good Together
Exercises 2 and 5 could be used or adapted for the classroom.https://www.doinggoodtogether.org/bhf/blog/understanding-immigration
How to Foster Empathy for Immigrants: a Greater Good article by Jeremy Adam Smith
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_foster_empathy_immigrants
In Their Shoes: Empathy and Immigration
This is a recording from the National Immigration Forum's "Only in America" blog that could be excerpted for high school or above at high intermediate to advanced level English.https://immigrationforum.org/article/in-their-shoes-empathy-and-immigration/
Green Card Voices
Videohttps://www.greencardvoices.com/
“Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy”
An article by PJ Manne, published in Journal of Evolution and Technologyhttps://jetpress.org/v19/manney.htm
Reimagining Empathy: The Transformative Nature of Empathy, by Paul Parkin
VideoThe Empathic Civilization, by Jeremy Rifkin, RSA Animate
VideoAdobe Spark Lesson notes: Options for Activities
Webinar with NYU Professor Mary Ritter: Practicing Pronunciation through Digital Storytelling with Adobe Spark Videos
Adobe Education Exchange: Adobe Spark Teaching Resources
From the Teaching Tolerance website: Empowering ELLs with Digital Storytelling
From Pushing the Edge education blog: The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Learners