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Philosophical Chairs Directions : Read the following statements and rate your level of agreement from AGREE TO DISAGREE. Prepare to discuss you answer by writing a brief explanation of your opinion on the lines which follow.
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Introduction to Mexican American identity
UNIT GOAL: Define central terms and evaluate basic issues and themes.
Today’s Objective After participating in and PHILOSOPHICAL
CHAIRS DISCUSSION, students will be able to use academic behaviors and practice discourse of scholarship to discuss PERSPECTIVES of the CONQUEST and evaluate its importance to the study of Mexican American cultural identity.
Philosophical ChairsDirections: Read the following
statements and rate your level of agreement from AGREE TO DISAGREE.
Prepare to discuss you answer by writing a brief explanation of your opinion on the lines which follow.
Before we begin: Circle your Mastery Target
Learning about the first people of the
Americas is important to understand
Mexican American identity and culture.
Overall, the Spanish conquest had a
positive effect on Mexican American
identity.
Traditions and cultures of
indigenous should be relearned and revisited in order
for Mexican Americans to have a positive self image.
Schools should do more to help
students understand the
perspectives and appreciate
contributions of indigenous people.
By forgetting about indigenous cultural
heritage, individuals are becoming the coyotes
Dona Luz warns about in her poetry and betraying the community that they
come from.
The casta system which Paul Apodaca
introduced us to continues to have
an effect on Mexican American
identity.
After Discussion: Identify the Mastery Level
Accomplished
Whip Around• I liked when _______ said __________
because _______________.• An interesting idea _______________• Something I learned from the
discussion ______________________.• I still don’t understand
_____________.