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HumanitiesResources for the Acquisition of English Languagefrom around the worldTrue confession: I have mostly taught math, statistics, tests and measurement and psychology. I only took one English course in college. So, anything that I didn't know where it went, but wasn't broad enough to go on the "GENERAL" site I put here under humanities. It includes film, literature and anything else I did not know very much about. If I was TOTALLY clueless about the subject, I figured it belonged under FINE ARTS. |
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The Bronze Screen:100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood Cinema is a DVD you can simply by writing a letter requesting a free copy and explaining how you will use it to empower Latino youth. Click here for more information on how to obtain your free copy. You can also download a free teacher's guide from this site. The questions and activities in the guide are not explicitly aligned with state standards by subject, but any teacher should be able to easily identify the areas where these activities do support state standards. Students are encouraged to analyze the media - film, electronic or print - use critical thinking skills to evaluate accuracy of portrayals of Latinos, etc. For those of you who actually think Bloom's taxonomy is a good thing to go by, this teacher's guide hits all of the higher levels. This is a great resource for high school students, and could be useful for middle school students with some guidance from the teacher.
For the elementary students : Fairy Tales (Cuentos de Hadas) in Spanish. These are beautifully illustrated. Print them out, for free, and you have Spanish language reading material for your children. Send them home with your students! You can find the same stories in English here. You may want to read them in English in class and send the stories home with your students in Spanish and English.