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Simons, Elizabeth Radin – 1990
Encouraging teachers of middle and secondary school students to learn to write using their own folklore, each chapter in this book presents a 1- to 3-week unit of study including background information, student activities, transcripts of discussions, and suggested readings for both teachers and students. After an introduction (Knowing Our Insides…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Family Environment, Folk Culture
Marvis, Barbara J. – 1997
The term "Hispanic" is an umbrella term that encompasses people from many nationalities, all races, and many social and cultural groups. Hispanics are also collectively called Latinos. The biographies in this series represent the diversity of Hispanic heritage in the United States. The people featured are contemporary figures of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Culture
Marvis, Barbara J. – 1997
The term "Hispanic" is an umbrella term that encompasses people from many nationalities, all races, and many social and cultural groups. Hispanics are also collectively called Latinos. The biographies in this series represent the diversity of Hispanic heritage in the United States. The people featured are contemporary figures of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Culture
1997
The term "Hispanic" is an umbrella term that encompasses people from many nationalities, all races, and many social and cultural groups. Hispanics are also collectively called Latinos. The biographies in this series represent the diversity of Hispanic heritage in the United States. The people featured are contemporary figures of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Culture
Lewin, Stephen, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This textbook examines Spanish exploration, conquest, settlement, and colonization of present-day Mexico, United States, and the Caribbean, and the conflicts and exchanges resulting from culture contact between Spaniards and Native Americans. Chapters cover: (1) first contacts in the Caribbean, enslavement of Native Americans, arrival of African…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Colonial History (United States), Culture Contact, Hispanic American Culture
Olivares, Julian, Ed. – 1994
This anthology of 21 short stories is intended for Spanish-speaking students of Spanish, other students in intermediate and advanced Spanish-language courses, and students commencing study of the Hispanic literature of the United States. Twelve of the 15 authors are, by birth or descent, of Mexican, Cuban, or Puerto Rican origin. Eight were born…
Descriptors: Authors, Cubans, Cultural Interrelationships, Higher Education
de Varona, Frank; And Others – 1989
Each of these two textbooks on Hispanic-American history contains 4 units divided into 20 chapters. Each chapter includes an overarching question; text; reading comprehension questions; study tips; an activity involving geography skills, links between past and present, or daily life; an activity involving arts and technology or using primary…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Answer Keys, Hispanic American Culture, Hispanic Americans
Phelan, Patricia, Ed.; Davidson, Ann Locke, Ed. – 1993
This book contains selected papers presented at a working conference, "Cultural Diversity: Implications for Education", held in 1991. The issues explored cover such areas as cultural therapy as a means to enhance student-teacher relationships; the differences in attitude and motivation of immigrant and domestic minority youth; the…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
