Curricula from 2015

NEH Summer Scholars, Geoff Agnor and Judy Schechter
National Council for the Social Studies
New Orleans, 2015

High School Art

(forthcoming)

High School English and English Language Development

Shannon Anderson
- “Legends and Myths from Mesoamerica and the Role they Play in the Culture and Identity of the People”
  - Lesson Overview(Word)

Amanda Cuellar
- Video glimpse of “¿Quién soy yo? An Exploration of Literacy“
- “¿Quién soy yo?/Who am I?”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - “Oaxacan Black Mole Recipe” (Word)
  - “Literacy Narrative Writing Assignment” (Word)
  - “Literacy Narrative Grading Rubric” (Word )
  - “El Arbol de Amate” (Word)
  - “Questions for Codex Espangliensis” (Word)
  - “Codices and Cochineal” (PPT)
    - List of Nestle products that contain Cochineal dye (Word)

Eddie Black
- “Mesoamerica Unit for World Mythology”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Eddie Black Novel (Word)
  - “Chocolate Unit” (Word)
  - “Chocolate in Modern Times” (PPT)
  - “Chocolate in Mesoamerica” (PPT)

Steve Ensdorf
- “Reexamining the Spanish Arrival in Mexico through Primary Documents”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Video glimpse of “Analytical Writing: Re-Examining the Spanish Arrival in Mexico through Primary Docutments“

Elvia Mandujano
- “The History of Chocolate: From Legend to Exploitation and Cultural Appropriation from the Conquest to Present Day”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Slide Show (PPT)

Ami Relf
- “Visual Literacy: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words”
  - Slide Show (PDF)
  - Visual Analysis Worksheet (Word)
  - Question Raiser Template (Word)

Aisling Roche and Jessie Stovall
- “Street Art in Oaxaca” (PDF)
- Video glimpse of “Street Art in Oaxaca”
  - Part 1
  - Part 2

High School Social Studies

Kristian Fabian
- “Indigenous Cultural Survival: Resistance, Adaptation, & Continuity”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Slide Show (PPT)
  - “Cultural Remnants” (youtube)

Judy Schechter
- “Linguistic Minorities and Access to Justice: Three Case Studies”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - “Deaf Americans’ Linguistic and Cultural Access to Justice in the United States” (PPT)
  - “Busted!” (PPT)
    - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (these will download in .pptx format; we are still waiting for Part 3)
  - “Story of Santiago Ventura Morales” (PPT)
  - “Story of Jacinta Francisco Marcial” (PPT)
  - Unspeakable: The Story about Junius Wilson (YouTube)

High School Spanish

Benita Argüéllez
- “Storytelling and Perspective: Art as a Form of Language”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Slide Show (PPT)

Phillip Callaway
- “Francisco Toledo, ‘El Maestro’ — A Oaxacan Artist”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Slide Show (PPT)

Vincent Civarelli
- Lesson Overview (Word)

Vanessa Ehler
- “La Malinche” (PPT)

Maura Furfey
- “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)

Mary Jackson
- “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)

Katherine Tomscha, a.k.a. Katherine Lupton
- “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)

Middle School Art

Lori Ann Levy Holm
- “Dig, Discover, Design: Using Mesoamerican Artifacts to Reveal the Continuity of Culture, Craft, and History”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Images from Classroom Experience (Word)
  - Video glimpse of “Dig, Discover, Design” (YouTube)

Middle School English

Geoffrey Agnor
- “Street Art in Oaxaca” (PDF)
- Video glimpse of “Street Art in Oaxaca”
  - Part 1
  - Part 2

Alonzo Barron Ortiz
- “Preliminary Unit Outline 2015”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - “Escribir para resistir” (PPT)
  - Video glimpse of “Escribir para resistir“

Middle School Drama and English Language Development

George Geist
- “The Game of Pelota Mixteca”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)

Richard Silberg
- “Masks of Mexico: Tumbas, Santos, Diablos y Más”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)
  - Wikipedia Piece on Mexican Masks (PDF)
  - Masks in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica (PDF)
  - Mexican Masks, 1521–Present (PDF)
  - Masks in Modern Mexican Art (PDF)

Middle School Social Studies

Vicki Gadecki
- “Cultivating Culture”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)

Jesse Scott
- “Cultural Continuity in World Histories”
  - Lesson Overview (Word)

Middle School Spanish

(forthcoming)

Elementary School Art

(forthcoming)

Elementary School English/Language Arts

(forthcoming)

Elementary School Science

(forthcoming)

Elementary School Social Studies

(forthcoming)

Elementary School Spanish

Juana Sánchez
- “Alebrijes” — Lesson Overview (PDF); earlier Word version