*All links will either open in a new window or auto-download to your computer’s download folder

High School Film

• Scott Eberhardt
  • “New Mexican Cinema” (Word)

High School Language Arts/English

• Rachel Madris
  • “The Weeping Woman (La Llorona)” (Word)
    • Learning Plan (Word)
    • Unit Plan (PPT)

• Anastasia Visbal
  • “Art Show at Brooklyn TechHSO center 2014” (PDF)
  • “Art Show Engagement 1” (PDF)
  • “Art Show Engagement 2” (PDF)
  • “Art Show Teacher Curator” (PDF)
  • Gallery Walk Questions for Students (Word)
  • “NEH Mesoamerican Study in a High School Setting” Unit 1 (Word)
  • “NEH Mesoamerican Study in a High School Setting” Unit 2 (Word)

High School Spanish

• Lisa Albrich
  • “El vestuario de Frida Kahlo“(Word)
    • Slide Show (PPT)
  • “Protest Art in the Tradition of Mexican Manuscripts” (Word)
  • “Guardando la Memoria” (PPT)

• Lisa Albrich and John McCluskey
  • “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)

High School Social Studies

• Ann Archer and Nitzan Ziv
  • “Mesoamerican Responses to Invasion and Colonization: Curricular Focus and Idea” (PPT)

• Clay Francis
  • “Mesoamerica AP Human Geography” (Word)

• Maeve Hitzenbuhler
  • “The Color Red”
    • Unit Information (Word)
    • Readings (PDF)
    • Images (PDF)

• Howard Krug
  • Images (.jpg)
  • “The Cloud People, the Zapotecs of Monte Alban” (Word)
  • “Maya and Nahua Methods of Sacrifice” (Word)

• Nitzan Ziv
  • “Be a Myth Busting Archeologist!” (PDF)
  • “Experience of Conquest: Agency During the Spanish-Mesaomerican Encounter” (PDF)
  • “Decision Making in Mexico Today” (PDF)
  • “The Myths of Moctezuma’s Greeting of Corte: Understanding how historians analyze primary sources” (PDF)

• Todd Stillman
  • “Mesoamerican Ritual Served Five Ways” (Word)

High School Science

• Michael Peña
  • “Iceman Evidence” (Word)
    • “NEH Curricular Project: Nature and the Development of Culture” (Word)
    • “NEH Curricular Project Links and Resources” (Word)
    • “NEH Ethnobiology option A” (PPT)
    • “NEH Ethnobiology option B” (PPT)
    • “Research Project: Culture and the Living World” (PPT)

Middle School Social Studies

• Natan Ben-Yonatan
  • “Artisan-Farmer at the Temple” (PPT)
  • “Artisan-Farmer at the War” (PPT)
  • Project Perspective Bibliography (Word)
  • “Cleric at the Market” (PPT)
  • “Commoner at the Ballgame” (PPT)
  • “Commoner at the Market” (PPT)
  • “Conquistador at the Market” (PPT)
  • “Conquistador at the Temple” (PPT)
  • “Conquistador at the War” (PPT)
  • Mesoamerica QR Station (Word)
  • “Mesoamerican Leader at the Ballcourt” (PPT)
  • “Mesoamerican Leader at the Market” (PPT)
  • “Mesoamerican Leader at the Temple” (PPT)
  • “Mesoamerican Leader at the War” (PPT)
  • “Mesoamerican Lives Debate” (Word)
  • “Mesoamerican Priest at the Ballgame” (PPT)
  • “Mesoamerican Priest at the Temple” (PPT)
  • Note Taking Guide (PPT)
  • “Spaniard at a Ballgame” (PPT)

• Christine Jawork
  • “An Analysis of the Evolution of Gender Roles and Identity” (PPT)
    • “Curriculum Proposal National Endowment for the Humanities” (Word)
    • “Annotated Bibliography” (Word)

• January Morrison & Patrick McCarthy
  • “Identity in the Context of Mesoamerican Cultures” (Word)
  • “Rubric for Grading Research Paper” (Word)

Middle School Arts

• Rita Baker
  • “To Oaxaca and Beyond!” (PPT)

• Marina Outwater
  • “I Am Poem” (Word)
  • “Oaxaca’s Street Art” (PPT)
  • NEH Project Proposal (Word)
  • NEH Project Proposal (PDF)
  • “Symbolism in Songs, Quilts, and more” (PPT)

Elementary Spanish

• Kristen Cardona
  • “Codex Lesson” (ZIP)
  • “Six Thinking Hats” (PDF)

• Kristen Cardona and Pamela Heuschkel
  • “Project Overview” (PDF)
  • “El Día de los Muertos” (PDF)
  • “Day of the Dead Resource Guide” (PDF)

• Pamela Heuschkel
  • “Day of the Dead Interdisciplinary Study” (PDF)

• Lauren O’Gara
  • “Language and Identity” (Word)
    • Lesson Plan (Word)
    • Loan Words (Word)
    • An abridged excerpt from “Gonzalo” (Word)
    • Malinalli Chart 1 (Word)
    • Malinalli Chart 2 (Word)

Elementary Social Studies

• David McKay
  • “Mesoamerican Day-Count teacher information” (PDF)
  • “Mesoamerican Day-Count” (PDF)
  • “Mesoamerican Solar Calendar” (PDF)
  • “The Twenty Day Signs” (PDF)

• Jamie Samuels
  • “The Americas”
    • Unit Plan (Word)

• Lauren O’Gara
  • “Language and Identity” (Word)
    • Lesson Plan (Word)
    • Loan Words (Word)
    • An abridged excerpt from “Gonzalo” (Word)
    • Malinalli Chart 1 (Word)
    • Malinalli Chart 2 (Word)

• Lisa Galeano
  • “Codices” (PDF)

• Sarah Horwitz
  • “Mesoamerican Studies” (Word)
    • “Calendar Mathematics” (PPT)
    • “Foods of Our Ancestors” (PPT)
    • “Who Are Californians?” (PPT)
    • “Using Film as a Medium for Discussing Gender Roles and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality” (Word)
    • “Comparing and Contrasting Perspectives of ‘First Contact’” (Word)
    • “Investigating Our Own Family Heritage” (Word)
    • “Traditional vs. Industrial Candle Manufacturing” (Word)
    • “Traditional vs. Industrial Candle Manufacturing” (PPT)

Elementary Art

• Elizabeth Bure
  • “Paper / Papel” (PPT)

• Kristen Cardona and Lisa Galeano
  • “Codices” (PDF)

• Tamara Weiss
  • “Making A Family History Codex” (PPT)
  • “Codex Homework” (Word)
  • “Mixtec Codex” (Word)
  • “Mixtec Personal Name” (Word)
  • “se1” (.jpg)
  • “se2” (.jpg)
  • “se3” (.jpg)
  • “teacher demo color” (.jpg)
  • “teacher demo outline” (.jpg)