This lesson will help students understand the nature and importance of historical artifacts, help them understand what makes something historical as well as how we can communicate the historic significance of an item.
This is a longer project that will allow students to select a topic to research. Students will need to search a specific newspaper (either of their choice or yours) for mentions of the issue and create a timeline of what happened.
Students will work in groups to create a presentation over a specific newspaper from this collection. The goal of this lesson is for students to understand the importance of why it is important to preserve these newspapers.
Students will use a loteria card to help them learn terms for the different parts of a newspaper and give them an opportunity to get familiar with topics of the newspapers in this collection.
Students will analyze “La Nueva Cancion” found in Accion. Then they will research labor unions songs and compare “La Nueva Cancion '' to a labor union song of their choice.
