Tag Archives: Traditions

2019 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Childhood and the City Space in Literature

Celebrating and Exploring Diversity and Community through Multicultural Literature with integrated Arts: Our “Maybe Something Beautiful”

January 24, 2020 – 12:38 pm

Julie Soto-Pendleton, 2nd Grade, University Park Creative Arts

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags achievable, beautiful, Civil Rights, community, Culture, diversity, equal rights, Ethnicity, family, friends, goals, hope, impossible, invisible, multicultural, neighborhood, Schools, segregated, separate, Tolerance, Traditions, triumph, united, visible, vision | Permalink | Comments Off

2018 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Insights into Latino Communities

“The Largest Versions of Ourselves”: Interrogating and Expanding Latina/o Identity In the Middle School English Language Arts Classroom Through Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

February 22, 2019 – 3:13 pm

Kenan Brett Kerr, English, Whitewater Middle School

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Borders, Culture, Día de Muertos, identity, Immigrant, Latina/o, Traditions | Permalink | Comments Off

2016 Curriculum Units Vol 7: Tracing the Legacy of Hispanic Cultures - 1492 to Today

Exploring Brazilian and Mexican Cultural Traditions

January 31, 2017 – 12:22 pm

Sadé Wright, Fourth Grade, Barringer Academic Center

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Tags All Soul’s Day, Brazil, Carnival, Celebrations, Ceremonies, Christmas, Cinco de Mayo, Compare, Comparison, Comprehension Skills, Contrast, Create, Culture, Day of the Dead, Difference, Different, Elementary School, Holidays, Independence Day, Mask, Mexico, New Years, Similar, Similarity, Traditions | Permalink | Comments Off

2015 Vol 2: What Makes a Nation?

Our Stories, Values and Traditions: Tall Tales and the Thanksgiving Story

January 29, 2016 – 12:24 pm

Heather Simpson, Grades 1-3, Chantilly Montessori

Final Unit(pdf) Implementing Teaching Standards(pdf)

Tags Elementary School, History, Nationalism, primary sources, Tall Tales, Thanksgiving, Traditions, Values | Permalink | Comments Off

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