I would love for students to gain the same experience as myself, but of course everyone is different and everyone will have different challenges along the way of the course so I cannot expect everyone to be able to attend every event I suggest. If I could as a professor I would schedule a field trip to museums or events revolving around Día De Los Muertos. Or possibly have people with strong Mexican American backgrounds visit class to explain their backgrounds in this holiday. The reason why I insist so much on this hands-on ethnographic approach is because there is a strong feeling of connection when you are able to hear and see people speak about the day and the meaning in real time. You see the emotions on their face and you hear it in their voice, something that is not very easily captured from only reading

books. If I had more time and resources I would add more specific journals. I want to ask questions to students that makes them think and makes them want to answer the question with an answer from the heart and not just something they feel forced to answer or something they always have to answer for every class. By composing this lesson cycle I've learned that I enjoy to plan classes if I could. I believe I'll be

taking this into my career field in order to train myself and others over time as we have new people come in and do not have as much experience or may forget what they learn in school. I will have a homemade lesson cycle to re-train ourselves. -- R. Garcia