El Día de los muertos y tres temas AP
Rationale:
AP units are better understood and make more sense when they are connected and intertwined. El Dia de los muertos is a celebration that can be seen from many different perspectives. These perspectives happen to also be some of the topics suggested by the AP Spanish language curriculum:
La belleza y la estética: ¿Cómo se establecen los ideales de belleza?
La vida contemporánea: ¿Cómo influyen lo productos culturales, las prácticas y las perspectivas de la gente?
Identidades personales y públicas: ¿Cuáles son las cualidades que convierten a una persona en héroe?
Strategies and activities:
1- Have students get informed about the meaning of Día de los Muertos.
2- Students make a venn diagram comparing Día de los Muertos with Halloween
3- Have students research the definition of a hero: discuss in class
4- Discuss with students about the stereotypical image of a hero
Activity
1- After finding out what a real hero is, ask your students if they can think about someone in their immediate circle who have passed away and that they can consider a hero in their lives.
2- Students find a picture of the person they consider a hero to themselves or their family.
3- Students can write a persuasive essay where they explain to the class why their chosen person is a hero. Ask them to support their ideas with what they have learned about what a hero is.
4- Students can put together a 2 or 3 minutes presentation where they introduce their personal hero and compare it with either a fictional hero, or a person who made a difference in the hispanic world.
Closing:
To close this lesson dedicate the following class to talk about how celebrating those personal heroes who are not anymore with us can impact us in many ways.
1- We bring them to live, we share their story and somehow they are born again.
2- We realize how their legacy and their departure have inspired us to be a better person.
3- Now compare again Dia de los Muertos and Halloween as a class.
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