|Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute||Home| The objective of the
unit is to enable students to understand and recognize the
importance of cultural identity in order to identify who they
are. The unit focuses on study of the Hispanic/Latino umbrella
group, and its roots: culture, traditions, history, art, and
politics. Students will learn the influence of different
ethnicities and backgrounds on the development of the Americas.
The unit contains direct references to, for example, Mexico,
Guatemala, Colombia, Cuba and Puerto Rico. The unit is
recommended for Spanish students with at least an intermediate
level of fluency (Spanish 3 and 4) since most of it is going to
be conducted in Spanish. (Recommended for Spanish 3 and 4,
grades 11-12.)