For this, the fourth week of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Mark’s Text Terminal offers this Intellectual Devotional reading on Diego Velazquez. Here is a reading comprehension worksheet to accompany it.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
For the third Friday of Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017, Mark’s Text Terminal offers a reading on Miguel de Cervantes and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
It’s the end of the first week of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Here is a reading on Simon Bolivar from the Intellectual Devotional series. To accompany it, here is a comprehension worksheet.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today, so for the next five Fridays, I’ll post readings and comprehension worksheets in its honor. To kick off the month, here are an Intellectual Devotional reading on Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer star, and a comprehension worksheet to complement it. This should be relatively high interest material, particularly for kids from Latin America who follow soccer–as so many of the students I serve do.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
It’s the final Friday of Hispanic Heritage Month, 2016, and so here is the final Weekly Text in observance of this month. I offer this week a a reading on Che Guevara, one of the most instantly recognizable icons of Hispanic–and Latin American–history. To accompany this reading here is a a reading comprehension worksheet. And that’s it for this week.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Mark’s Text Terminal continues to observe Hispanic Heritage Month. I’ve found in compiling material for posts that I have a paucity of material on subjects appropriate for this month. This week’s Text is a reading on Bartolomeo de las Casas and a reading comprehension worksheet to accompany it. De las Casas, as you may know, was a Dominican friar and bishop (and a contemporary and acquaintance of Christopher Columbus) who protested Spanish imperial policy in the New World, particularly the abuse and eventual genocide of the natives. He set all this down in his classic anti-imperialist tract, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. As I searched its title, I was surprised to find the book available as a PDF from Columbia University. I consider this book one of the most important I read as an undergraduate.
In choosing de las Casas as a subject for a Weekly Text, I was momentarily stymied by my lack of understanding of the difference between the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Spanish. Fortunately, there are a number of clear explanations of this nomenclature out there; I knew this because recently, on Facebook, I came across this excellent comic delineating the difference between Latino and Hispanic. By my understanding of these terms, Bartolomeo de las Casas meets the definition of Hispanic.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Post Scriptum: An old high school friend of mine who knows well whereof she speaks forwarded this article about the use of the term “Latinx” as a signifier for people from the Spanish-speaking world.
Well, the month of September 2016 has passed us by, never to be seen again. I’ve been so busy getting the school year up and running that I barely noticed.
For the past two weeks, and for the next two weeks, Mark’s Text Terminal is featuring readings and reading comprehension worksheets in observance of Hispanic Heritage Month. In the process of preparing these posts, I’ve learned a lot about this celebration. If you teach in a school district that is as diverse as ours here in New York City, you are very likely working with a number of students of Hispanic descent. If so, you and your students might be interested in both the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and its Youth Awards program.
For my part, I offer as this week’s Text a reading on author and Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as a comprehension worksheet to accompany it. And now I must get back to work on planning.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
As I mentioned last week, it is National Hispanic Heritage Month. For the duration of this observance, I’ll post readings and comprehension worksheets that teachers might find useful for edifying students on Hispanic history. I’ll do so with brevity, because it’s the first month of the school year, and I am as busy as I always am in these weeks.
This week’s Text is a reading on Jose Marti, the nineteenth-century martyr to Cuban independence; here is a comprehension worksheet to accompany it. And that’s enough said.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Whew: busy week.
Are you aware that yesterday inaugurated Hispanic Heritage Month? For the next five weeks, I’ll post readings related to this honorific month.
To that end, and in somewhat indecent haste (I have to teach in half-an-hour), here is a reading on Cesar Chavez and an accompanying reading comprehension worksheet.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
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