Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Theresa Pinilla
GA ESOL Cohort-
Cultural Issues
Fall 2010
SS6G1 The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean.
a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: Amazon River, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico,
Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, and Atacama Desert.
b. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba,
Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela.
SS6G3 The student will explain the impact of location, climate, distribution of natural resources, and
population distribution on Latin America and the Caribbean.
a. Compare how the location, climate, and natural resources of Mexico and Venezuela affect where people
live and how they trade.
b. Compare how the location, climate, and natural resources of Brazil and Cuba affect where people live
and how they trade.
SS6G4 The student will describe the cultural characteristics of people who live in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
a. Describe the results of blending of ethnic groups in Latin America and the Caribbean.
b. Explain why Latin America is a region based on the languages of Portuguese and Spanish.
c. Evaluate how the literacy rate affects the standard of living.
ELA6W1 The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets
a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and provides a satisfying
closure. The student
a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose,
genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
c. Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological
order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a
question).
d. Uses appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition elements).
Procedures:
Assessment options: See the page titled Project Boxes at the end of
this lesson.
PROJECT BOXES- CULTURE
Create a timeline of Learn and Attend a cultural
significant events in demonstrate a event and report
the history of traditional art or back to the class.
Mexico, with special craft. This could be a
attention to those celebration,
events that performance,
had/have an effect museum exhibit,
on the United etc.
States. Include at
least 20 events to
describe.
Choose a piece of Research at least a Choose an example
literature from dozen people in of contemporary
Mexico (using a Mexican or Mexican music and
translation is OK) Mexican-American explain or translate
and compare it to culture and create it for the class.
an American a poster or
literary piece in powerpoint about
English. Poems their
would be good to accomplishments
start with. and contributions
to society.
Write a persuasive Interview someone Compare the
essay or letter to about their culture. standard of living in
the editor about an This does not have Mexico and the
issue brought up in to be someone of United States.
class. Mexican heritage,
but it can be.