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1. A Short Film about Puerto Rico - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS by Bad Bunny
1. A Short Film about Puerto Rico - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS by Bad Bunny
Directions: If you would like to choose the short film "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" for your project, you can use the videos below to guide your understanding. This short film comes from Bad Bunny's new music album, which focuses on the history and culture of Puerto Rico. After watching the short film, watch the Podcast below with University of Wisconsin Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo to learn about the history of Puerto Rico and background information to help understand the messages of the short film and the album.
Guided Listening Questions for the Short Film: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Guided Listening Questions for the Short Film: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
What are some of the memories the man shares about his life in the first 2 minutes of the video? What past verbs do you notice in his storytelling?
What does the man hear and see on his way to the restaurant? What language are the people speaking as the man walks to the restaurant? Why does this seem “out of place”?
What happens when the man tries to order his food at the restaurant? Why do you think he uses English, even though he is in Puerto Rico where he has spoken Spanish all his life? How does this scene show the way things have changed in his neighborhood in Puerto Rico?
When the young Puerto Rican man pays for the elderly man’s food, why do you think he tells the elderly man “seguimos aquí, gracias a usted”?
Why is the elderly man surprised that they have “Quesitos sin queso” or “cheeseless quesitos”?
What is the man’s reaction to the loud reggaeton music? What does he miss about the way his neighborhood used to be?
The talking toad character in this film is actually an endangered species in Puerto Rico called the sapo concho toad. What could be some metaphors or symbols of this character?
Why does the man keep saying he should have taken more photos in this film? What do you think are some of the messages of this film?
Guided Listening Questions for the Interview with Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Guided Listening Questions for the Interview with Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Both the podcast host and the professor use the word Bóricua. What do you think the meaning of Bóricua is?
According to the professor, what were Bad Bunny’s goals for telling history? How did he want to amplify Puerto Rican history?
How did the professor contribute to the album? What are some of the themes the professor included for the historical visualizers of the album?
How does Bad Bunny compare Hawaii and Puerto Rico? How is Puerto Rico experiencing rapid gentrification and displacement similarly to what has happened in Hawaii?
How do people on the island of Puerto Rico experience the effects of colonial violence?
What has caused Puerto Ricans to have to leave the island?
What are some of the feelings the podcast host shares about going back to Puerto Rico? How do you think the podcast host feels about going back to Puerto Rico and noticing the “Americanization” of the island where some communities don’t speak Spanish any more and rising prices have displaced Puerto Ricans?
What are some of the issues with tourism on the island of Puerto Rico? What do the speakers in the podcast say about the tension on the island?
How does the album focus on lifting up Puerto Rican people and using nostalgia to lift up new generations?
What is the “Yo no me dejo” generation? What social issues and causes are they involved in?
2. Bilingual Literature: How to Tame a Wild Tongue
2. Bilingual Literature: How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Directions: Another option for this project is to read the chapter "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" from Gloria Anzaldúa's 1987 book, Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza. See the author's biography and background information to prepare you to read the chapter below.
"Gloria Anzaldua was born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. At age eleven. she began working in the fields as a migrant worker and then on her family's land after the death of her father. Working her way through school, she eventually became a schoolteacher and then an academic, speaking and writing about feminist, lesbian, and Chicana issues and about autobiography. She is best known for This Bridge CalJed My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), which she edited with Cherrie Moraga, and Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987). Anzaldua died in 2004. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" is from Borderlands La Frontera. In it, Anzaldua is concerned with many kinds of borders - between nations, cultures, classes, genders, languages. When she writes, "So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language" (par. 27), Anzaldua is arguing for the ways in which identity is intertwined with the way we speak and for the ways in which people can be made to feel ashamed of their own tongues. Keeping hers wild - ignoring the closing"
To read the chapter, click "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"
Source Attribution: Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” In Borderlands: The New Mestiza – La Frontera, 53–64. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987.
3. History: The Colombian Exchange - El Intercambio Colombino
3. History: The Colombian Exchange - El Intercambio Colombino
Directions: Scroll the resource below to complete a unit from a Spanish textbook. This unit is about The Colombian exchange and its impact on agricultural products, global populations, and el mestizaje y identidad Latina. Click "Next" in the bottom-right corner to read all 3 parts of this unit.
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.
4. Fictional TV Series in Spanish
4. Fictional TV Series in Spanish
Directions: Use the links below for Spanish-language TV Shows and learning materials from Edunovela. You can watch the first 3 episodes of each show for free and develop your project based on the themes and topics of the show.
Silvana Sin Lana TV Show - https://www.edunovela.com/spanish-1-2.html
El Tiempo entre Costuras TV Show - https://www.edunovela.com/spanish-2-3.html
Gran Hotel TV Show - https://www.edunovela.com/coll-spanish-2-adv-and-above.html
5. Short Stories and Legends in Spanish
5. Short Stories and Legends in Spanish
Directions: Use the link to the resource below to access a website with short stories and legends in Spanish.
6. Podcasts in Spanish
6. Podcasts in Spanish
Directions: Use the links below for Spanish-language podcast options for project 1.
7. Spanish Language Academic Textbooks
7. Spanish Language Academic Textbooks
Directions: Use the orange link below to explore different textbooks in Spanish. You can choose to read 1-2 chapters of a textbook in your field of study for project 1.
8. Spanish-English Bilingual Kids Books
8. Spanish-English Bilingual Kids Books
Directions: One fun way to learn Spanish is through children's books and read alouds. For this option, you can use the video and link below to watch/read 1-2 bilingual read alouds from the YouTube Channel #KidsStoryTime. Although this content is for children, it is a great way for adults to learn Spanish, especially past verb tenses.
To see more videos from #KidsStoryTime, click https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3gBRxwlIAz3srN819oYWekaoKvUFJNjy&feature=shared
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