Hispanics

Presenters: Judith-Hope Bates * Christy Chapman * Erica Wolshleger

Certification/Subject Area: Social Studies, Spanish, Elementary and Middle School
Set up classroom in u-shape with desk groups in a horse shoe shape with the center empty
Lesson Plan Student Engagement and Accountability
Anticipatory Set: (5min)
Bonfire: read story that is attached. Make sure desks are out
of the way before beginning
Objectives:
Today we will be learning about Hispanic culture and at the end of
the hour we play a piiiata game to review what has been presented to
you.
Purpose:
The purpose of the lesson is to learn about Hispanic culture and how
the culture will affect our future students and us as future teachers.
Input: (25 min)
Read through information that is provided on the following
areas. Follow PowerPoint. For extra information see attached
pages in the back of this lesson plan when the sections call for
them.
Historical Migration
Attached pages
Discrimination
Attached pages & Handout "Discrimination"
Group Handouts: Students will look at handout and figure out the
main point for their section. Each group will only have one section.
Pictures
Attached Pages
Current Educational Concerns
Attached Pages
Social Economics Level
Attached Pages

Sit on floor and listen to story


Sit in desk and listen



Sit in desk and listen

Sit at desk and listen and take notes if they
want to. At various points throughout the
presentation students will need to interact
within their groups and with the teacher

Famous People
Charades: Demonstrate how to do a charade.
Writer: write on hand. Group guesses writer
1. Divide class into groups of three/four.
2. Have one person come get a set of cards
3. Rules: one person looks at one piece of paper and acts it out.
The person who guesses right gets to act out the next card.
Try to get through all of them in 5min.
Stop them at 5 min and find out how many each got.
Learning Style/Multiple Intelligence
Attached pages
Strategies
Attached pages
Percentage of Teachers
Power point
CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING see below then go to...
GUIDED PRACTICE see below and come back for music
Music
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
Dismiss class

Modeling: (You don't need to do anything, just extra info)
At the start of Charades and Pi:fiata
Our lesson is interactive and is set up in such a way that
would benefit Hispanic students and middle income white
students.

Students watch as the teacher demonstrates
what the students are expected to do for the
activity
Checking for Understanding: (15min)
Demonstrate how to answer the questions.
Question one being who is a famous dancer from the 21st
century who has movies and records out. Jenifer Lopez. If I
answer one more question right I get a swing at the pi:fiata. If
I answer 6 questions right then my group would break open
the pi:fiata.

Students get into groups (should be sitting
with already)
Discuss answers to questions in groups and
try and get enough swings to open the
pi:fiata.
Students swing at pi:fiata to open it and get
candy



Pifi.ata
Students get back into groups of 3 or 4.
They have to answer one question right to get a swing
It takes three swings to break open the pifi.ata
Allow group that got enough points to open the pifiata to
actually swing at the pifi.ata and open it.
Allow students to get candy
Have a stash ready for students who didn't get candy

Guided Practice: (5min)
Case Study (see handout "Case Study")
Have students get into groups of 3 or 4
Present students with information about a community
Ask students to think of ways to fix this problem

Students get into groups of 3 or 4 (stay at
desks with family group) and figure out the
problem and a solution. They can move
around the room and look up on the internet
resources if they would like to.
Independent Practice: (5min)
Go home and ask someone who is older than you by at least a
year what country their family is from and how that impacts
them.
When you come back write a paper, create a song, or create a
project that tells where the person is from and at least two
things that have impacted them the most while living in the
USA from their culture.
The project must be done before you come to class.

Students go home and work with a friend or
family member to figure out the answer
Closure:
Read the last quote on the last power point slide
Students listen to quote and follow along as
it is read and think about how it pertains to
what they just learned
List every resource needed to implement this lesson.
1. charades character cards
2. bonfire story
3. power point
4. pifi.ata
5. oifi.ata questions
6. case study hand out
7. discrimination hand out