Heritage Spanish · Week 21 · Literatura latinoamericana y chicana
Y no se lo tragó la tierra
Reading Tomás Rivera's stories of migrant farmworker families, students connect their resilience to farmworker history in their own valley.
- Students will
- Students read a story by Tomás Rivera and use the preterite and imperfect together to narrate events and background.
- SEL skill
- Explain a character's experience and recognize perseverance using event and background details
- What it looks like
- Students build empathy, see perseverance in Rivera's migrant families, and connect it to farmworker history in the Coachella Valley.
- Content focus
- Tomás Rivera; preterite and imperfect in literary narration
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people's lives and histories shape their experiences and treating their stories with respect. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- WL.CM1.A: Communication Standard 1, Interpretive Communication (Advanced range)
- WL.CL2.A: Cultures Standard 2, Cultural Products, Practices, and Perspectives (Advanced range)
- WL.CL3.A: Cultures Standard 3, Cultural Comparisons (Advanced range)
- WL.CM6.A: Communication Standard 6, Productive Structures in Service of Communication (Advanced range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Cultural Comparisons, Interpretive Communication, Relating Cultural Products and Practices to Perspectives
- Proficiency range: Advanced
More social awareness activities for Heritage Spanish
- No hay español malo Social awarenessComparing words across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, students reject the idea of bad Spanish and respect every variety.
- Los cuentos de mi abuela Social awarenessStudents interview an elder in Spanish and capture a family story, honoring the voice of the storyteller.
- Mi vecindario habla Social awarenessStudents practice interviewing an imagined neighbor in Indio or Coachella with accented question words and listen for the stories behind the answers.
- Gloria Anzaldúa y la frontera Social awarenessReading excerpts from Borderlands, students reflect on living between languages and cultures and how others experience that space.
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