Latino Cultures and Communities

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.04.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Mexican History: Background Information for Teachers
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Appendix I
  8. Appendix II
  9. Resources for Teachers
  10. Materials for Classroom Use
  11. Notes

Latino Children's Folk Music: A Series of Thematic Writing Exercises

Yvette Moorehead Carter

Published September 2007

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Notes

1Richmond Public Schools, 2007. 26 July 2007,

http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/indexnew/sub/statistics/statistics.cfm.

2Playing to Learn Curriculum, 2005, YMCA-YWCA, 08 July 2007,

http://www.guelphy.org/Contribute/ Child_Care/playingtolearn.asp.

3The Meaning of Food, 1995, PBS, 09 July 2007, http://www.pbs.org/oph/meaningoffood.

4Janet Long-Solís and Luis Alberto Vargas. Food Cultures in Mexico (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005) xiii.

5Rosemary Rees, Understanding People in the Past: The Aztecs (Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library, an imprint of Reed Educational & Professional Publishing, 1999) 26, 27.

6Rees, 31.

7Rick Bayless, Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking From the Heart of Mexico (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007) 313, 314.

8Juan González, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000) 4.

9Eric Kimmel, Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs (New York: Holiday House, 2000) Author's Notes.

10JeanMarie Brownson and Deann Groen Bayless, Rick Bayless's "Mexico One Plate At a Time" (New York: Scribner, 2000) 329.

11José-Luis Orozco, De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children (New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1994) 11.

12Long-Solís and Vargas, 43.

13Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (New York: Thames and Hudson Inc., 1996) 26.

14Long-Solís and Vargas, 43.

15Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1999) 82.

16Rees, 39.

17Pomeranz and Topik, 82.

18Coe and Coe, 17, 18.

19Pomeranz and Topik, 83.

20Deann Groen Bayless and JeanMarie Brownson, Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen (New York: Scribner, 1996) 392.

21Bayless, 313, 314.

22 Richmond Public Schools Instructional Model (Richmond, VA: Department of Instruction and Accountability, 2006).

23Elizabeth MacLeod, Chock Full of Chocolate (Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press Ltd., 2005) 4.

24Bayless, 313, 314.

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