Looking for a Día de Muertos video/story for your Spanish Classes?  This is a great short to show your students for Día de Muertos for all levels.  Need a TPRS story to go along with with your lower levels?  This is what I've used in the past:

Me llamo María y estoy con mi mamá, mi abuela Carmen y mi tía Mercedes. En mi familia, no hablamos español. Tampoco hablamos inglés. ¡Hablamos maya! Me encanta hablar maya.

Es el 31 de octubre en Yucatán, México. El clima es un poco diferente porque el aire está frío. No hace calor. En la cocina, mi abuela prepara el pib para comer. ¡El pib es muy delicioso! Mi familia prepara el pib porque es el Día de Muertos. Para hacer el pib, se necesita pollo, orégano, sal y pimienta. A mi abuelo Marcelo también le gusta comer el pib.

Ahora las familias preparan el altar para los muertos. Lo preparan con flores de cempasúchil, fotos y la comida favorita de los muertos. Yo como el pib con mi abuelo. Nos encanta el pib. Es nuestra comida favorita. Yo como el pib con mi abuelo porque nosotros no estamos vivos. Estamos muertos.

Mi familia prepara el altar con la comida para los muertos para recordar a los difuntos para que jamás se nos olviden. El 1º de noviembre, los espíritus de los niños están con las familias. ¡Es una celebración de la vida! Continuamos la celebración el 2 de noviembre. Ahora, los espíritus de los adultos están con las familias.

¡Tenemos mucha hambre! Comemos mucho el pib en esta celebración en Yucatán, México.

Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is not only celebrated in Mexico. Introduce your students to unique traditions and foods around the Hispanic world -- from Guatemala to Ecuador to the Canary Islands -- with these SIX comprehensible readings. The readings discuss Día de los Muertos/Difuntos and Día de Todos los Santos.

Best for Spanish 2/3 +

This EDITABLE resource includes:

- 6 comprehensible readings on Google Slides
- Graphic organizer
- Reading comprehension questions
- Answer Key

You can use this resource for a gallery walk, daily warm-ups, individual or group work, etc. You can even use the comprehension activities as a short quiz.

World Languages Institute, hosted by the Multilingual Academic Support Unit, is an opportunity for world language educators to explore, apply, share, and implement the California World Languages Framework and 2019 California World Languages Standards.

We are seeking teachers to collaborate in curriculum development and implementation of lesson plans in an international learning experience between teachers and students in Mexico and the United States.

This project will support the co-creation of K-12 curricula to address the gaps that currently exist in the history that is taught about freedom destinations and the Underground Railroad. Our curricula will center the stories of liberation that led South, to Mexico, and many of its central figures (Black women, men and children) who, as Harriet Tubman did, fought to be free and assist others to freedom destinations in Mexico.

We are currently looking to identify 1-3 high school teachers in Mexico and up to three US high school ELA/history/Spanish teachers who can support the development of this learning experience and implement the pilot of this unit in spring 2024.

Qualifications:

• high school grade 11-12 ELA/social studies/Spanish teacher (middle school may work too)

• open minded constructivist style

• interested in Afro-Latino issues, especially in Mexico.

• interested in partnering in and co-creating an international curriculum development project.

• interested in gaining professional development skills, including using mapping and film making in the classroom.

• ability to attend a 3-day professional development training in the United States

• interested in partnering with a teacher and students in Mexico for an international learning experience, implementing lessons in sprin

Please email your interest to project coordinators, Dr. Maria Hammack (maria.hammack@fulbrightmail.org) and Dr. Amber Bechard (abechard@laverne.edu). Indicate your home/school location and why you are interested in participating in the project, as well as the age, grade and subject area of your classroom.

If you have previous curriculum development experience, that would be valuable, but is not necessary.

Email interest by November 14, 2023.

CIEE is looking for a few teachers that can help coordinate for them across the world! Being a coordinator can be a great side hustle for teachers to earn some extra cash, travel the world, and help to connect their local community with cultures from across the world.

Coordinators typically:

• Are curious about other cultures

• Enjoy spending time encouraging and working with teenagers

• Want to share their community with other cultures

• Love to travel!

Coordinators are paid for their help and go on some pretty amazing trips! In the next 12 months CIEE will be going on trips to Costa Rica, Mexico, Iceland, and Italy!

It isn’t much a time commitment, is really rewarding, and I bet you’d love the trips we go on! If you have any interest, please let me know. I’d love to hop on a call and tell you about it and answer questions!

For additional information click on the link below or come to hear Danny Velasquez tell about the program at the CLTA Jamboree, Chino Hills High School on September 30..