Latino Cultures and Communities

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.04.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Unit Overview
  4. Why They Came and Where They Settled
  5. The Literature
  6. Unit Wrap-up
  7. Lesson Plan 1: Understanding Maps and Globes
  8. Lesson Plan 2: Secret Footprints
  9. Lesson Plan 3: Martina Cockroach
  10. Lesson Plan 4: Juan Bobo and Amelia Bedelia
  11. Bibliography

Cuéntame Una Historia, Por Favor! (Tell Me A Story, Please!)

Kathy Howell Zimbaldi

Published September 2007

Tools for this Unit:

Lesson Plan 3: Martina Cockroach

Objective: Students will practice reading aloud and reciting in English.

Activity: Students will create face masks of the various speaking parts in this story, using the materials listed below. With scripts of one or two lines each, student groups of 5-6 members will tale turns playing each character, memorizing and reciting each character's lines.

Materials: Paper plates, markers, glue, yarn, multi-colored construction paper, and one line "scripts" for each student.

Part 2

Objective: Students will write an original version of a folktale.

Activity: Students will write their own version of Martina Cockroach, with Juan Bobo as the unfortunate husband. Keeping in mind that Juan Bobo frequently misunderstands directions and misinterprets a speaker's message based on the multiple meanings of words, students must keep Juan Bobo "in character" as they introduce him into the Martina Cockroach plot.

Comments:

Patricia Gray

December 24, 2014 at 8:42 pm

Thanks for the Unit!

I thoroughly enjoyed your writing about the other Spanish-speaking countries and how to introduce other Latin cultures to your students. Thank you for your hard work! I would love to participate in an initiative like this.

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