“The hate that the Iberian peninsula has inspired in us is broader than the sea which separates us from it: it is less difficult to join both continents than to join both countries’ souls.”
“The Jamaican Letter” (1815)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged hispanic history, readings/research
Now seems as good a time as any to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on apartheid, a horrorshow that many of us are old enough to remember and to have joined campaigns to abolish.
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“(1889-1959) Mexican essayist and poet. One of the young Mexican intellectuals who formed the circle known as the Ateneo de la Juventud, Reyes left his homeland soon after receiving his law degree in 1913. He lived in Spain until 1924 and subsequently served as a Mexican diplomat in France, Argentina, and Brazil. He returned permanently to Mexico in 1939.
Often considered the finest prose stylist of Spanish since Rodo, Reyes was an authority on the literature of Spain’s golden age. He eschewed pedantry, and his work is remarkable for its subtlety, grace, and insight. His best-known work is probably Vision de Anahuac, 1519 (1917), a depiction of Aztec civilization just before the Spanish Conquest. His collections of essays include Capitulos de literature espanola (1939; 1945), Pasado immediate y otros ensayos (1941), Ultima Tule (1942), and Tentativas y orientaciones (1944). He also wrote El deslinde (1944), an introduction to literary theory; Letras de la Nueva Espana (1948), on the culture of colonial Mexico; and La X en la frente (1952), an interpretation of Mexico. Ifigenia cruel (1924) is a dramatic poem based on the classical legend. Collections of his essays in English translation are Mexico in a Nutshell (1964; tr by C. Ramsdell) and The Position of America (1971; tr by H. de Onis).”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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Tagged fiction/literature, hispanic history, readings/research
For eleven years, I worked in a economics-and-finance-themed high school in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. For some reason, in this school, one door away from the former headquarters of the American Stock Exchange, I’ve never heard students use the noun fungibility or the adjective fungible. Despite its essentiality to understanding a certain area of economics–i.e. commodities and exchange–I’ve never seen students working on material that would help them understand it.
So, a few years ago, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the adjective fungible as an attempt to start students down the road to understanding this word and the concepts it represents. However, given the complexity of fungibility, this only briefly prepares students for that understanding. In high school, that may all that students require. But I would argue that they should at least arrive at the doors of their college or university with this word in their vocabularies.
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“I…had always thought of Paradise
In form and image as a library.”
“Poem of the Gifts” (1959) (Translation by Alastair Reid)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
This week’s Text is a complete lesson plan on the Latin word roots mal and male. They mean, of course, bad, evil, ill, and wrong. This post, like all the material published here between September 15 and October 15, is in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. This material may stretch the boundaries of the letter of the month’s intent; on the other hand, the Latin language is, like it or not, a key part of Hispanic Heritage.
Over the years I’ve worked with many native Spanish speakers. My original impulse in writing word root worksheets, particularly those dealing with Latin roots, arose from the idea that helping students develop their own understanding of the Latin language as a bridge to English would hasten their journey to bilingualism. Ideally, students will retain their Spanish language skills while building their English vocabularies and understand the way these roots show up across the spectrum of Romance languages–often in the exact same words.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective sinister to hint at the meaning of the roots mal and male, thereby pointing them in the right direction. This scaffolded worksheet is the mainstay of the lesson.
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“(1875-1961) Argentine novelist. Larreta was a romantic who wrote with great technical precision. He recreated the Spain of Philip II in La Gloria de don Ramiro (1908; tr The Glory of Don Ramiro, 1924). His dark and lyrical stories are remarkable for images which assault the reader’s senses with colors, sounds, and smells. Other well-known works are two gaucho novels, Zogoibi (1926) and En la pampas (1955), and El Gerardo (1956), a two-part novel set in the Alhambra and Argentina, respectively, shortly after the Spanish civil war.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, hispanic history, readings/research
Here is a reading on the Mexican War with a comprehension worksheet to attend it. This post continues the observation of Hispanic Heritage Month at Mark’s Text Terminal. However, this is a key piece of United States history, so social studies teachers take note.
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“Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”
“Salmo II” (1907)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged hispanic history, philosophy/religion, poetry
Continuing with this blog’s observation of Hispanic Heritage Month, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Spanish-American War.
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