Annotated Bibliography
Allen, Ms. “Close Reading in Foreign Language (French).” YouTube, November 14, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZkjBP4eink&t=1s This video provides a detailed example of Close Reading/Looking in a novice level French classroom.
“American Civilization – the Gods of the Modern World (1932) by Jose Clemente Orozco.” Artchive. Accessed July 13, 2025 https://www.artchive.com/artwork/american-civilization-the-gods-of-the-modern-world-jose-clemente-orozco-1932/. This website provides a brief yet insightful explanation of of Orozco's panel "Gods of the Modern World."
Apollon, Master. “Las Meninas – Diego Velázquez - Analysis.” Master Apollon, February 26, 2025. https://masterapollon.com/las-meninas-diego-velazquez/.
The author of this website provides a detailed analysis of the illusion, reality, and power portrayed in Velaquez's masterpiece.
Baker, Jill. “7 Research-Backed Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary.” SplashLearn Blog Educational Resources for Parents, Teachers & Kids, February 3, 2025. https://www.splashlearn.com/blog/teaching-vocabulary/. An excellent resource of research - backed vocabulary teaching strategies for language teachers.
Barat, Charlotte. “Frida Kahlo Mexican, 1907–1954.” MoMA, 2016. https://www.moma.org/artists/2963-frida-kahlo. This website provides a brief biography of Frida Kahlo focusing on her role as a feminist artist and the role of her self - portraits.
Britannica, Editors of Encyclopaedia, and Marilyn McCully. “Pablo Picasso.” Encyclopædia Britannica, June 18, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pablo-Picasso. This article discusses the life and career of Picasso including his early years, his time in Paris, and his periods of art.
Cristina, Maria. “Great Art: Hobgoblins (Duendecitos) by Francisco Goya (Interpretation and Analysis).” Medium, October 27, 2021. https://maria-cristina.medium.com/great-art-hobgoblins-duendecitos-by-francisco-goya-interpretation-and-analysis-d93b37120381. The author of this article offers her interpretation and analysis of Goya's "Duendecitos" from his art series Los Caprichos.
Editors, Biography.com. “Francisco de Goya - Paintings, Romanticism & Portraits.” The Biography.com Website, November 5, 2021. https://www.biography.com/artists/francisco-de-goya. This webpage offers a brief biography on the life of Francisco de Goya including his early years, his time at the Spanish court, his personal life, his illness, and his final years.
Fellow, Pamela Coleman, Sylvan C. Coleman, and William T. Gassaway. “Female Figure: Tlatilco.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed July 7, 2025. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313188. This article describes the Mesoamerican sculpture of a female figure know as a "Pretty Lady" from Tlatilco.
“Fernando Botero Paintings, Bio, Ideas.” The Art Story. Accessed July 13, 2025. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/botero-fernando/. This source offers a timeline and summary of Botero's works, describes his accomplishments, and discusses his life including influences and connections.
“Fernando Botero.” New School, September 2015. https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/portfolio.newschool.edu/dist/6/9224/files/2015/09/Fernando-Botero-La-familia-presidencial-vzme1j.pdf. This webpage provides a detailed description and analysis of Botero's painting "La Familia Presidencial."
“Frida Kahlo Paintings, Bio, Ideas.” The Art Story. Accessed July 13, 2025. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/kahlo-frida/. This source offers a timeline and summary of Kahlo's works, describes her accomplishments, and discusses her life including influences and connections.
“Goya’s Last Works.” The Frick Collection: Exhibitions, February 2006. https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/archivedsite/exhibitions/goya/exhibition.htm. This article provides insights into Goya's last works including those of his Los Caprichos series.
“José Clemente Orozco Paintings, Bio, Ideas.” The Art Story. Accessed July 13, 2025. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/orozco-jose-clemente/. This source offers a timeline and summary ofOrozco's works, describes his accomplishments, and discusses his life including influences and connections.
“La Belleza Del Día: ‘La Familia Presidencial’, de Fernando Botero.” infobae, June 13, 2020. https://www.infobae.com/cultura/2020/06/13/la-belleza-del-dia-la-familia-presidencial-de-fernando-botero/. This website offers a brief description of Botero's work "La Familia Presidencial" and a hisotry of his life leading up to the painting.
“Orozco: A Closer Look.” Hood Museum, 2014. https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/sites/hoodmuseum.prod/files/hoodmuseum/publications/2014orozcocloserlook.pdf. This source includes a detailed description of Orozco's panel "Gods of the Modern World" from his mural "The Epic of American Civilization." It also provides a step by step close look activity which would be useful to teachers in guiding their students through a close look of this work.
Salma, Nihat. “Collaborative Learning: An Effective Approach to Promote Language Development.” International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.23918/ijsses.v7i2p57. This article discusses the use and benefits of collaborative learning in the world language classroom.
“TLATILCO FIGURINES and POTTERY.” Essay. In Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, 69–74. New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, 2013. This source includes detailed information about the life, times, and cultures of the Mesoamerican peoples around the time the "The Pretty Ladies" sculptures were created.
Wicks, Maris, and Gema Moraleda. El Teatro del Cuerpo Humano. Barcelona: Astronave, 2021. This graphic novel in the target language is a great resource for teachers when taching the parts of the human body including the different body systems in Spanish. It is also a wonderful reference for novice level Spanish students who are learning about the human body in the target language.
Zelazko, Alicja. “The Two Fridas and Later Works.” Encyclopædia Britannica, July 9, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frida-Kahlo/The-Two-Fridas-and-later-works. The article contains a detailed description and analysis of Kahlo's work "Las Dos Fridas."
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