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High School
- Lisa Albrich (2014)
- “El vestuario de Frida Kahlo“(Word)
- Slide Show (PPT)
- “Protest Art in the Tradition of Mexican Manuscripts” (Word)
- “Guardando la Memoria” (PPT)
- “El vestuario de Frida Kahlo“(Word)
- Lisa Albrich and John McCluskey (2014)
- “La Cocina Prehispánica”
- “La Cocina Prehispánica Unit Description” (Albrich) (Word)
- “Unit Description” from John McCluskey (who also teaches social studies) (Word)
- Vocabulary List 1 (Word)
- Vocabulary List 2 (Word)
- Vocabulary List 3 (Word)
- Vocabulary List 4 (Word)
- “Codex Dialogue Activity” (Word)
- “Diseñar una Taquería” (Word)
- “Taste-Testing Activity: La Comida Prehispánica” (Word)
- “Lotería: La Comida Prehispánica” (Word)
- “Sorting Activity: La Comida Prehispánica” (Word)
- “Palomo del Comalito” song lyrics by Lila Downs (Word)
- “La tuza trajo el maíz” reading (PDF)
- “El monte de nuestro alimento” reading (PDF)
- “La Cocina Prehispánica”
- Benita Argüéllez (2015)
- “Storytelling and Perspective: Art as a Form of Language”
- Lesson Overview (Word)
- Slide Show (PPT)
- “Storytelling and Perspective: Art as a Form of Language”
- Stephanie Baker (2010)
- “Alebrijes in Spanish” (YouTube)
- “Alebrijes in English” (YouTube)
- Photostory Program downloads (for students wishing to make photostories such as this), for Windows, for Macs
- Phillip Callaway (2015)
- “Francisco Toledo, ‘El Maestro’ — A Oaxacan Artist”
- Lesson Overview (Word)
- Slide Show (PPT)
- “Francisco Toledo, ‘El Maestro’ — A Oaxacan Artist”
- John Carolan (2011)
- “La Cultura de Oaxaca” – Listening and Writing Lesson Plan
- Lesson Plan Information (Word)
- La Cultura de Oaxaca – Video (Youtube)
- “La Cultura de Oaxaca” – Listening and Writing Lesson Plan
- Vincent Civarelli (2015)
- Lesson Overview (Word)
- Lila Downs (2010)
- “Cumbia del Mole” (song) (2009)
- Vanessa Ehler (2015)
- “La Malinche” (PPT)
- Lynn Fernandez (2010)
- Lesson 1 of 2, “Introduction to Mesoamerica”
- Lesson Plan (Word, PDF)
- Mesoamerica Notebook (PDF)
- Map and Timeline (PDF)
- Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF)
- ¿Qué hay de comer? (PPT, PDF)
- El calendario mesoamericano (PDF)
- Codex Selden pages with questions (PDF)
- Lesson 1 of 2, “Introduction to Mesoamerica”
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- Lesson 2 of 2, “Juego de Pelota”
- Lesson Plan (Word, PDF)
- Juego de Pelota Notebook (PDF)
- Juego de Pelota (PDF)
- Los jeroglíficos y códices (PPT, PDF)
- Juego Game Cards (PDF)
- Codex Example (PDF)
- Lesson 2 of 2, “Juego de Pelota”
- Maura Furfey (2015)
- “The Language of the Codices / La Lengua de los Códices” (Word)
- “Los Chinelos de Morelos” (Word)
- Images (Word)
- Video Glimpse of “Chinelos de Morelos” (MP4)
- Laura Hovey Ozuna and Lisa Sragovicz (2010)
- ”Mi vida en México prehispánico”
- Unit Plan (Word)
- Brainstorming Worksheet (Word)
- Internet Investigation (Word)
- Proyectos estudiantiles (Word)
- Images (ZIP)
- ”Mi vida en México prehispánico”
- Mary Jackson (2015)
- “Dear Student: You Have Been Selected for a Summer Institute in Oaxaca”
- Lesson Overview (Word)
- Dot to Dot Rabbit Glyph (PDF)
- Dot to Dot Number Order (Word)
- Forms of Communication (Word)
- Stephanie Wood’s “Mesoamerican Pictorial Manuscripts Classification Exercise” (Word)
- Modified Day Signs from Codex Magliabechiano (Word)
- Stephanie Wood’s Animal Glyph PowerPoint (PPT)
- Place Names in Idaho Worksheet (Word)
- Codex Mendoza Place Name Line Drawing Activity (PDF)
- Codex Mendoza Line Drawings, Folios 40r and 46r (Word)
- Codex Mendoza Matching Place Names Activity (Word)
- Tribute Page Assignment (Word)
- “Dear Student: You Have Been Selected for a Summer Institute in Oaxaca”
- Kathleen Melville (2011)
- “Excavating and Weaving — Exploring Culture and Cultural Identity”
- Lindsay Mitchell (2011)
- “Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano”
- Unit Information (Word)
- Mitos escritos (Word)
- Short myth handout (Word)
- Donají leyenda (Word)
- Donají handout (Word)
- Myths and Legends sorting activity for smartboard (Word)
- Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano (PPT)
- Chatino interview – Video (WMV)
- “Los mitos y leyendas del mundo mesoamericano”
- Katherine Tomscha, a.k.a. Katherine Lupton (2015)
- “En la Escuela”
- Unidad 3, Notes 13, “Guerrero + Oaxaca Protests” Slideshow (PDF)
- Unidad 3, Notas 14, “Tengan Puestos Los Ojos en Guerrero” (about the Ayotzinapa students who disappeared)
- Rebellion in Oaxaca, Criterion A
- Unidad 3, Notas 15, “Tengan Puestos Los Ojos en Oaxaca” (about the Teachers’ protests in Oaxaca)
- “Storytelling in Mesoamerica: Art as a form of language”
- Lesson Overview (Word)
- “Unidad 5 Notas 1: Cuentos en Mesoamerica” (Word) and Slide Show (PPT)
- “Unidad 5 Notas 2: Cuentos en Mesoamerica” (Word) and Slide Show (PPT)
- “Unidad 5 Notas 3: Los Mitos de la Conquista” (Word) and “John Pohl’s MESOAMERICA: THE MEETING” (PDF)
- “Unidad 5 Notas 4 Parte 1: Piedras, Arboles y Tela” (Word), “Unidad 5 Notas 4 Parte 2: Lienzos en Mesoamerica” (Word)
- “Unidad 5 Notas 5: Popol Vuh: Conociendo los Mayas” (Word) and Slide Show (PPT)
- “Unidad 5 Notas 6: Polpol Vuh: Al Principio” (Word)
- “En la Escuela”
- Elise Weisenbach (2010)
- “Las Artes de Mexico: The Virgin of Guadalupe” (Word)
- “The Mesoamerican Ballgame” (Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox)
Elementary School
- Kristen Cardona (2014)
- “Codex Lesson” (ZIP)
- “Six Thinking Hats” (PDF)
- Kristen Cardona and Pamela Heuschkel (2014)
- “Project Overview” (PDF)
- “El Día de los Muertos” (PDF)
- “Day of the Dead Resource Guide” (PDF)
- Pamela Heuschkel (2014)
- Lauren O’Gara (2014)
- “Language and Identity” (Word)
- Lesson Plan (Word)
- Loan Words (Word)
- An abridged excerpt from “Gonzalo” (Word)
- Malinalli Chart 1 (Word)
- Malinalli Chart 2 (Word)
- “Language and Identity” (Word)
- Juana Sánchez (2015)
- “Alebrijes” — Lesson Overview (PDF); earlier Word version