Explore the resources below about food and family in Hispanic and Latino/a/x culture. You can choose any of these topics for the culture and language project. Feel free to skim, scan, and skip around these resources based on what interests you most. Use the guiding questions below to help you develop your topic into a presentation.
Guiding Questions
What topic did you explore? How would you describe it or explain it to someone who doesn't know about it? Practice describing in Spanish.
What are some of your first impressions or major learning moments in relation to the topic?
What are some cultural products, practices, and perspectives associated with the topic?
What are some community connections and comparisons you can make about the topic? What are some similarities between your language and culture and the cultures you are learning about?
What are 5-10 important vocabulary phrases you learned from your exploration in this activity? Practice using them in sentences.
In what ways did you learn more about yourself, your culture, and your language in this activity? How did you improve your cultural humility and understanding through this topic exploration? How did you improve your language skills?
Source Attribution: Comunidades by Yuriko Ikeda and Julia C. Baumgardt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Source Attribution: Nuestra comunidad latina Copyright © 2020 by Lennie Amores and Janice E. Rodríguez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Source Attribution: JUNTXS Copyright © 2021 by The University of Queensland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Source Attribution: This page titled 5.2: Food is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Erin Huebener (Independent) via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.
Source Attribution: Smithsonian. National Museum of the American Latino. https://latino.si.edu/es/aprende/historia-y-cultura-latina/cultura-latina/comida-latina