Focus on Hispanic American History
"What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."
- Carter G. Woodson Here are resources you may want to use for Hispanic American History activities Literature · The Day of the Dead/El día de los muertos (B. Barner) · The Bakery Lady (P. Mora) · Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale (L. Ehlert) · Too Many Tamales/Qué Montón de Tamales (G. Soto) · The Dreamer/El soñador (P. Muñoz Ryan) · Arroz con leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America (L. Delacre) · The First Tortilla (A. Córdova) · Family Pictures (C. Lomas Garza) · Sol a Sol: Bilingual Poems (L.M. Carlson) · The Day it Snowed Tortillas (J. Hayes) · The Lizard and the Sun (A. Flor Ada) · My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz (M. Brown) · The Festival of Bones (L. San Vicente) · Lee sobre César Chávez/Read about César Chávez (S. Feinstein) · My Name is Gabriela: The Life of Gabriela Mistral (M. Brown) · Rafael Márquez: World Soccer Star series (M. Benson) · Me llamo María Isabel (A. Flor Ada) · Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez (E. L. Raboff) · What´s it like to be Óscar de la Hoya (T. Gagne) · Laughing Tomatoes & Other Spring Poems (F. Alarcón) · My Papá Diego and Me (G. Rivera Marín) · The Storyteller´s Candle (L. Gonzalez) · The Piñata Maker (G. Ancona) · A Tree is Older Than You Are (N. S. Nye) · Clemente! (W. Perdomo) · Cuba: A Question & Answer Book (M. Dubois) · Mexico ABCs (S. Heiman) · A Primary Source Guide to Mexico (K. O´Donnell) http://www.hispanicheritagemonth.org
latino.si.edu Smithsonian Latino Center Latino Virtual Museum LVM Interactive Archive Latino Virtual Gallery http://www.folkways.si.edu/find_recordings/Latino.aspx Smithsonian Folkways Traditions/Tradiciones Music Series http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/ Scholastic Includes Teacher’s Guide to online activities http://www.timeforkids.com/minisite/hispanic-heritage-month-1 Time for Kids Statistics, Videos, Biographies, Printables & more! Great video for introducing the month http://www.colorincolorado.org/calendar/celebrations/hhm/ Activities & Cultural Information
Hispanic American History "What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice." - Carter G. Woodson Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 16, and Chile on September 18. The term Hispanic or Latino, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, refers to Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. On the 2010 Census form, people of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin could identify themselves as Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or "another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin." According to the 2010 Census, 50.5 million people or 16% of the population are of Hispanic or Latino origin. This represents a significant increase from the 2000 Census, which registered the Hispanic population at 35.3 million or 13% of the total U.S. population. Updated by E. Harris |
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