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.
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 lesson focuses on interpretive communication: reading and listening. This activity will help students demonstrate an understanding of culturally authentic print materials.
Students will practice their interpersonal communication skills, specifically speaking and writing by interviewing a classmate and writting an aricle based on the interview.
Students will be introduced to the concept of historical perspectives and their impact on understanding past events. This will help students develop their critical thinking as well as their analysis skills working with primary sources.
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.
