Latin America Lesson Plans

Students explore Latin America by researching the favorite past time, baseball. In this Latin culture lesson, students identify the leaders in the Latin American baseball movement such as Felipe Alou, Jose Mendze and the great Roberto Clemente. Students practice using baseball vocabulary terms and answer study questions based on the the book they are assigned to read.

Students explore the Carnival traditions of Puerto Rico and compare them to other Carnival traditions in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. In this carnival lesson, students discuss the history of carnivals and their importance to the Puerto Rican community. Students examine Ponce costumes and masks and research a carnival that occurs in the United States to complete a graphic organizer. Students write a description of different Carnival celebrations.

Learners research, organize, write, and present information on a country in Latin America. They edit and write the final essay using a word processing program.

In this lesson students explore the life of a migrant worker. They compare the life of those living in the United States with a poorer country such as Mexico or Latin America. After looking up the definitions of vocabulary words, groups of students read about the plight of migrant workers. They discuss how migrant workers support their families. In this lesson students simulate an interview with a illegal migrant worker. They write a newspaper article on the life of migrant workers.

In this lesson students learn historical and current social, political, and cultural trends of Latin American countries. They research a specific country. They write songs that reflect the music styles as well as the history of the region.

In this lesson students explore and analyze a wide variety of Latin American literature and contemporary writers from Latin America. They embrace the history and cultures of the different countries represented. Each student either makes a presentation of a country's historical profile or an author's profile.

This lesson has students explore Hispanic countries.  In this Hispanic culture and language lesson, students choose an Hispanic country to research.  This lesson has students explore given websites and prepare a dramatization incorporating the facts they find. This lesson has students practice using correct Spanish grammar, particularly the subjunctive mode. This lesson has students compare and contrast Latin American countries with the United States.

9th graders study factors of the era of expansion that caused the era of imperialism. They watch a segment from one of the following movies: A Passage to India , or The Barbarian and the Geisha. They create an annotated bibliography off the Internet.

In this lesson students review the history and political motivation behind the U.S. adoption of the Monroe Doctrine and how national security measures collide with the issues of due process and human rights during times of war. Tehy know how the German, Japanese, and Italian Communities in Latin America reacted to their arrests, detention, internment,a nd deportation.

Students examine the class systems of New Spain. In small groups, they create a five-day diary about the family life, food, occupation, and government involvement of an assigned personality from the time of Colonial Latin America.