Lesson Plans

(13 results)

13 results

  • X Marks the Labor Union

    Grades 6-12

    Students will research labor unions from the early 1900s and create a map to visually represent the number of unions.

  • For Sale!

    Grades 6-12

    Students will view advertisements in historical newspapers. They will select one item being advertised and research the product.

  • Comic Concerns

    Grades 6-12

    This lesson focuses on La Violeta, a newspaper that focuses on Women’s History. Students will select an issue written about in the paper and create an editorial cartoon. Lesson can easily be adapted to be used with other newspapers in this collection.

  • Unions Then and Now

    Grades 6-12

    Students will focus their work on a union of the past and a present day union. They will compare and contrast the struggles of the workers and what rights they were fighting for. Has the struggle of the worker changed or remained the same?

  • ¿Cómo era antes y cómo es ahora?

    Grades 7-9

    This lesson will help students differentiate activities, words, clothes, etc. that were used/done in the past and how they might be different in the present. This is a great activity with real-world context to practice and improve their foreign language skills, teamwork abilities, as well as the use of the preterite, imperfect, and present tenses.

  • El periódico descompuesto

    Grades 7-12

    This lesson was designed to provide Spanish students with an activity to demonstrate advanced proficiency in spoken and written Spanish by being able to create coherent sentences/paragraphs using the vocabulary and grammatical structures they have learned. This lesson can be adapted for other classes.

  • Time Capsules!

    Grades 6-12

    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.

  • The Interview

    Grades 7-9

    Students will practice their interpersonal communication skills, specifically speaking and writing by interviewing a classmate and writting an aricle based on the interview.

  • Chronicle of an Issue

    Grades 8-12

    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.

  • Las Calaveras

    Grades 6-12

    Students will read and analyze Calaveras found in Calaveras Antiguas de “El Mañana.” Students will then use Calaveras as a model to write their own.

  • Why Should We Care?

    Grades 8-12

    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.

  • Newspaper Loteria

    Grades 6-12

    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.

  • Sing It! Labor Union Songs

    Grades 8-12

    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.