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Protected: Thank you for joining me *live* in D.C.! Here are your goodies!
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🇲🇽 3 Myths About Cinco de Mayo: DEBUNKED (Share With Students!)
Cinco de Mayo is a very confusing holiday: various myths swirl around its origins and what it represents that persists to this day! For Mexico’s northern neighbor, the United States celebrates Cinco de Mayo as if it were a national Mexican holiday, with full force, but often shrouded in misunderstandings and confusion. In this article,…
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Everything You Need to Celebrate El Año Nuevo (and to ease yourself back into the First School Week of 2022) | Virtual & In-Person Friendly + SALE
El Año Nuevo: a magical time of the year where you get to redefine your identity and decide what you want out of life and how you are going to achieve it. But then reality hits a few days before work starts and you realize that you have professional obligations…and you haven’t really put much…
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DÃa de Acción de Gracias 🦃 Resources
I’ve put together some resources for you to check out from The Cultural Classroom for teaching about el DÃa de Acción de Gracias in the classroom! Let me know what you think! Previous blog posts of interest! Check out this comprehensive resource: a Webquest/Digital Notebook on Latino and American Thanksgiving traditions An interesting cultural exploration…
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Protected: Decolonizing the Spanish Classroom: Seeing, Hearing, and Tasting the Influence of Africa in Latin American Cultures
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Ways to Celebrate DÃa de los Muertos in Spanish Class
DÃa de los Muertos is quickly approaching and you might be thinking: “how do I celebrate this rich tradition in my Spanish class?” Since many of us find ourselves educating in a variety of new ways (in-person mixed with online, hybrid, virtual, etc), this type of lesson can be particularly difficult. But one thing is…
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Afro-Latinos, Africa, and Latin Music
Today I’ll be sharing with you a mini lesson that I teach to my students every year about the borrowing of musical tropes back and forth, to and from Africa & Latin America, why that is and how we can see that it contemporary culture! It takes about 20 minutes (or less, depending on how…
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How to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Your Online Students
Do you know what month it is? ::waits for you to check a calendar:: Despite it feeling like part 101 of month Cuarentena, it is actually Hispanic Heritage Month! From September 15th to October 15th, the United States celebrates the many accomplishments of Hispanics. You might have had tried and true ways to pay homage…
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GWATFL: Increasing Engagement Through In-Person & Online Games
Hi! Welcome to my blog! If you have time, please do explore, as I have many resources for the foreign language classroom. In this post, I will be addressing the topics in my YouTube video for GWATFL. Above you have my presentation slides, which you can watch at your leisure. You can also download a…