Presencia Latina Table of Context

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Presencia Latina
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Spanish Nivel 4
What you will
Learn:
Different Vocab:
Movie La
Vocab
Verguenza
La Dignidad
La conciencia
El trabajo duro
La honra
La familia
La udentidad
La
confrontacion
La delicuencia
La gange
La traducon
La okace
La pinta
La inmigracion
mejicana
La religion
catolica
What Mexico was like back in
the 1900s
Comparatives
You’ll learn about the different
cultures and ways of life
Everything in this unit will all
relate back to culture, and the
way of life back then comparing
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Table of Context
To look for in
the newspaper
Each page will have
an example, and
explanation of what
you will be learning
this year in this unit
presencia Latina
-Hope you enjoy
Page 1: Latino
Groups, Majado
Song, & Symbols
Page 2 & 3: El Norte
and Mi Familia.
1:Themes,
2:Vocab
3: readings
Page 4: Comparatives
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By Danny Van Brunt
El Mojado, by Ricardo Arjona is a song that we study in the unit Presencia Latina. It is about immigration over the Mexican-­‐
American border. We have to fill out a chart with five categories such as what we see, hear, feel, taste and smell from the video. The first time we watch it, we have to listen to it without sound to get better descriptions under categories such as what we see, smell, or taste. Then with music we fill out the other categories. With these descriptions, we can understand the video more. After that, we divided into groups to draw a single picture per group representing a different part of the song. This furthers our understanding of it even more. We then analyze the lyrics of the song to understand the song completely through a question asked in every verse. In the end, we understand Ricardo’s deep message given to us about immigration.
El Majado: By Richardo Arjona
Mojado, mojado de tanto llorar sabiendo que en algun lugar te espera un
beso haciendo pausa desde el dia en que te marchaste Si la luna suave se
desliza por cualquier cornisa
Sin permiso alguno
porque el mojado precisa Con probar con visas quees de neptuno
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By: Christian
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MI Familia: The Movie
In class everyone will
watch a movie called Mi Familia,
it is about a family who lives in
the United States and goes
through many hard things in life
due to the fact that they are
Mexican. They go through
hardships like discrimination and
they start to lose themselves at
times while trying to assimilate
into American society. After the
movie ended you get an
assignment about the movie, a
packet that involves some
translation, vocabulary words,
writing sentences and answering
questions. You will also take a
test, which is quite easy, if you
pay attention to the movie. You
will also use information from this
movie to connect to other movies
later in the course. And finally it
will be part of your final.
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El Norte:
The Movie by: Brian Rubin
This unit was focused on the Latin influence in the United States. You will
closely look at the way in which immigrants have moved into the United
States and their struggles of adapting to a new country and a completely
different culture. To better understand these topics you will watch the movie
“El Norte,” which portrayed the lives of a brother and sister from Guatemala
who head to the United States in order to escape the military violence in their
country and to get “una vida mejor.” We see the two characters, Enrique and
Rosa, difficulties in crossing the border as well as their attempts to adapt to
American ways. While watching the movie you will be filling in worksheets
that refer to the literal plot events that take place as well as matching the
characters to their description. In addition, you will be learning many
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vocabulary words that relate directly to what is occurring in the movie. Words
such as “el soldados” which means soldiers and “el coyote” refer to people
who help illegal immigrants cross the border and enter the United States. After
watching the movie you will explore different topics that are present such as
comedy, racism, discrimination and symbols. To show what you have learned,
in pairs, you will then create a graphic organizer that shows your specific topic
that you have covered and present it to the class.
Comparatives:
Mas
Menos
Igual
You will learn how to compare two things, weather is more than or less than each other.
It’s really easy to learn. You’ll get to compare the two movies El Norte and MI Familia,
relating on how there different and how they are the same in context of the movie. You
learn a lot about the culture and the difference in time between the two movies. At the end
of the unit you’ll take a comparative quiz on both of the films.