Videos - Global Awareness

You might not realize it, but we are all part of a global community. Watch the following videos to learn about how you are part of a global community, and the global economy.

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and answer 3 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these videos.

• In your own words, what does being a global citizen mean to you?
• What do you want to see improve in the world?
• What did you learn about the global economy or other people in the world that you did not know before?
• After watching these videos, what can you do while you are at City High to prepare yourself to be a caring, competent and successful global citizen?

Celebrities that speak Spanish

Many celebrities speak Spanish! This helps them communicate with fans from Spanish speaking countries. I've mentioned Will Smith before, and now it's time to highlight more!

Lupita Nyong'o speaks Spanish - watch the video to see if you can answer the following questions.

In what country was Lupita born?

What food does she like to eat?

Click here to read more about this interview

Ben Affleck speaks Spanish in the Mexican premiere of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

What does he say is the hardest part of playing Batman?

How old is his son (who thinks he really is Batman)?

What does he say is the mejor/best Batman gadget?

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio
and answer the questions under one of the videos above.

 Also select another video from this article,
embed it into your blog,
and explain what you were able to understand the celebrity say!

How youth deal with trauma

Last year there was an increase in unaccompanied minors (also called undocumented youth), and some even came to Pittsburgh.

In this blog post there are two different audio stories. One about the lives of girls who stay in Central America, and another about the lives of youth who make it to the United States

Hot Tamale Activities

Select one of the stories and answer the questions related to it in a new blog post on your Spanish Blog Portfolio.

Listen or read about how unaccompanied minors are doing in the United States public school systems.

• What are some issues that the youth who have come to the United States face?
• What is a difficult issues that the school system faces in order to service the youth?
• What makes learning English easier for Victor?

Listen or read about what life is like for 15 year olds girls in El Salvador. Trigger warning - this report deals with difficult issues of violence. The prior article might be a better choice for some students.

• Summarize this story in your own words.
• If you were living in El Salvador, how would you have to change what you normally do now?
• What are some reasons girls face danger?

More about refugees and immigration

In some of our classes we have compared and contrasted the three following issues:

• The Syrian Refugee Crisis
• What people in the United States thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II
• Central American youth trying to cross the border into the United States to escape violence in their home country

Here are a few additional resources to explore these issues a bit more.

• Article Refugees: That Time Everyone Said 'No' And Bolivia Said 'Yes' 
• This article is about how Bolivia, a country in Latin America, was one of the only countries to consistently accept Jewish refugees in the Americas before and during WW2
• Twitter How a refugee gets to America, explained by an actual refugee
• This article is a collection of tweets that show the process of becoming a legal refugee in the United States.
• Video Immigrant or Refugee
• When we discuss immigration reform it's important to recognize there is a difference between these two terms.
• Related article 4,600 Central American Kids Have Applied for Refugee Status. 11 Have Gotten It. Here's Why.
• Audio Report Terrorized by Violence: Mexico's Refugees
• This audio piece provides details about what happens to people who try not to leave the country but survive by becoming refugees in their own country.

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete one of the following tasks.

• Summarize what you read in your own words. What new information have you learned?
• What do you think the process should be to allow become to come to the United States? 
• Explain in your own words what is the difference between being a immigrant/migrant and a refugee. Do you think the explanation of refugees applies to the undocumented youth fleeing Central America? Explain your answer
• Explain in your own words what the chart above shows. What new information have you learned from this chart?

DREAMers

In Spanish class we touch on immigration. There are many different aspects of this issues, and one of them is the youth that are brought over with their parents illegally when they are young, and how that event can effect their future opportunities.

The Dream 9

In 2013 nine people who were young when their parents brought them over decided to challenge the system to hopefully improve their future by not suffering from the affects of being "undocumented". You can listen to their story here or below.

After you listen, you can read about where they are now by clicking here.

Here is another article about how undocumented youth have to live in the United States.

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete 2 of the following tasks.

• Summarize the radio story The Dream 9 in your own words. 
• Read about where the Dream 9 are now by clicking here. Are any of them now considered legal residents of the U.S? What is your reaction to how life is for them now? What questions does this raise for you about the United States immigration system?
• What would you do if your parents moved you to another country when you were very young and then as you become and adult and try to get post-secondary education or a job you find it difficult/impossible? Would you return to the country that you haven't been to since you were a little child? Would you try to find a way (wether "legal" or not) to try to stay in the country you've been in most your life? Explain your answer.
• Read Living the DREAM article and make a list of things people who are labeled as undocumented cannot due that others can. 

Keep Practicing Spanish!

Over the trimester break, there are lots of things you can do to help maintain all the hard work and effort you put into learning Spanish this trimester. Click here to see a list.

Sí Allen, es muy importante!

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post and answer the following question.

• Select 2 or 3 of the suggestions that you are most likely to do. Describe your plan on how your will actually complete these activities.

Limón & ...???

If the word in Spanish for lemon is limón, then what is the word for lime? This question has stumped me for years, and apparently I'm not the only one. 

 

Click here to read/listen to story about the difference ways to say lemon and lime in Spanish.

Hot Tamale Activity

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete the following tasks.

• Describe 3 different ways people in Spanish speaking countries say lemon or lime and detail which country says it which way.
• Where did the fruit come from? How did limes come to Latin America?