We know that the beginning of the year is hectic. We are not asking you to do something extra. Instead, think about how you can incorporate an activity into your current units. Could it be a poem about scholars' cultural backgrounds or being bilingual? How about a family interview on their countries' customs and traditions? Perhaps a "How To..." piece on a family recipe?
Your project can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. Try to involve parents in your activity so that they feel connected and valued in supporting their child's education.
Feel free to contact Hazel or Dora for assistance.
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http://www.nps.gov/nr//feature/hispanic/2002/index.htm
This collection of resources from the National Register of Historic Places includes links to publications, featured properties, and history in the parks, including a series of lesson plans that use places listed in the Register.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/latino-poetry-blog-blogging-1160.html
In what way do culture, personal experiences, and history influence a poet's work? Students will answer this question as they read and discuss in an online blog a work by a Latino poet. In this multisession lesson, students choose a Latino poet and poem to analyze. Students use Internet resources to gather background information about the poet and integrate that research into an analysis of the poem's meaning, literary devices, and themes. After posting their analysis to a class blog, students then refine their writing skills as they respond meaningfully to their peers' poetry analysis. The act of blogging encourages students to think carefully about their responses and to use good writing techniques.
Poetry Analysis Sheet: Students can use this worksheet to compile information for their written analysis of a Latino poem.
Students in grades 9-12 analyze similarities and differences between cultures by investigating themes and motifs found in literature or visual arts.
Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution
Students in grades 9-12 research the events and personalities of the Mexican Revolution, explore how these people and events influenced the artists and art of this time period, and create original art that demonstrates the style of one of the artists studied.
Smithsonian Education - Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources
Lessons for grades K-12.
28 Lesson plans for grades 6-12.
Library of Congress - Hispanic Heritage Month Images, exhibits, audio, and video.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
121 articles, musical samples, and videos.
Smithsonian Latino Center Includes exhibitions, virtual museum, Virtual Museum Bilingual Teacher Training Took Kit, and more.
U.S. geography. Many U.S. place names are derived from the Spanish language. Invite students to locate, tag on a U.S. map, and translate the following states and cities:
States -- Arizona, Colorado, Florida, and Montana.
Cities -- El Paso, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Pueblo, Colorado; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; San Jose, California; and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Challenge students to find additional U.S. place names of Spanish origin.
Graphing. Invite students to use the following information from the U.S. Bureau of the Census to create a bar graph, a picture graph, or a circle graph showing the country of origin of U.S. Hispanics. The information below shows how many of every 100 Hispanic Americans list each of seven different countries as the nation from which their ancestors came.
Mexico
67 out of 100
Puerto Rico
9 out of 100
Cuba
4 out of 100
Nations in Central & South America
14 out of 100
Other Hispanic Nations
6 out of 100
Biographies. Invite students to select one of the famous Latinos from the worksheet list (see Latinos in History) or one of the ones that follow and to learn two new facts about that person. Set up a "share time" when students will share with each other the information they've learned.
Explorer
Statesman
Writer
Painter
Roberto Durán
Sportsman
Julio Iglesias
Musician
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Musician
Painter
Explorer
Tito Puente
Musician
Ruler
Military
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario
Sportswoman
Musician
Lee Treviño
Sportsman
Statesman
Annotated Bibliography of Children’s Literature
http://web.archive.org/web/20040310021046/http://clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu/Latino_Bibliography.html
This particular list focuses on Latino people, history, and culture.
Journal of Time: A Historical Perspective (Esperanza Rising)
Students in grades 5-8 use photographs as inspiration to write journal entries from the point of view of someone living during the Great Depression in California.
Famous Hispanic Scientists Link:
Books:
Voices of the U.S. Latino experience / edited by Rodolfo F. Acuna and Guadalupe Compean.
Women in Hispanic Literature: icons and fallen idols / edited by Beth Miller.
Hispanic feminist poems from the Middle Ages to the present; a bilingual anthology
Becoming Julia de Burgos: the making of a Puerto Rican icon / edited by Vanessa Perez Rosario
Videos: