My name is Felipe.
I am Panamanian
oand Venezuelan.
I am black.
I live in Chicago.
I am Latino.
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> Questions to initiate and guide the Creative Reading Dialogue
> Activities students can do individually or in groups
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A horrendous and unforgivable crime
contributed to the birth of a new culture
People of African descent contributed to the formation of Latin America,
a world with three major heritages: indigenous, African and Spanish.
Questions to Initiate and Guide the Creative Reading Dialogue
Descriptive Phase
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Why does Felipe feel the need to be Angelita’s champion?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] How will he defend her?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] What is his gift?
Personal Interpretive Phase
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] It has been said that all Latinos are mestizos, because we all share a mixture of cultures and ethnicities. Like many other Latinos, Felipe is of African descent, an Afro-Latino. Are you Afro-Latino? Any of your friends? Anyone you know?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Do you know anyone who, like Angelita, has special needs?
Critical/Multicultural/Anti-Bias Phase
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Felipe is aware that we are not responsible for the conditions of our birth. For him this means that no one has the right of looking down upon others who may be different. What are your thoughts on this?
Creative/ Transformative Phase
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] How can we respect the differences with which we are all born? Make sure that others also respect them?
Activities Students Can Do Individually or in Groups
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Have students research the lives of Afro-Latinos who have made important contributions to the Latino history and culture. They can present their findings in a variety of ways including a newspaper article or blog entry, a radio or TV interview, a biographical book.
Some of the many important figures are:
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[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Artists
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Wifredo Lam (Chinese/African) Cuba
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Poets
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Nicolás Guillen (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Luis Palés Matos (Puerto Rico)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Nancy Morejón (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Patriots in the Struggle for Independence
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] José María Morelos (México)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Antonio Maceo (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] José Maceo (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Leaders
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Juan Gualberto Gómez (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Pío de Jesús Pico (California Governor)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Religious Figures
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] San Martín de Porres (Perú)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Sports Figures
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rico)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Musicians
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Nicomedes Santa Cruz (Perú)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Victoria Santa Cruz (Perú)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Bola de Nieve (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Song Writers
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Pablo Milanés (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Singers
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Celia Cruz (Cuba)
[wc_fa icon=”angle-right” margin_left=”50px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Ibrahim Ferrer (Cuba)
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[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Have the students research some of the contributions of Latinos with an African heritage, in the past and today. They can present it in the form of a report as news for a newspaper, radio or TV, or as an interview They can do this project individually or in groups. Make sure the report includes:
What is the contribution? Who made it? When? Where? How is it new or different? How was it achieved? Why is it significant?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Encourage students to research the history of the Panama Canal and create a history time line
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Invite them to learn about Venezuela. They can make a map and identify the different regions, the various indigenous groups who live in Venezuela, and the physical characteristics of its various regions.
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Have students look up the American with Disabilities Act and understand the struggles that it required to recognize the right of all people to be given equal rights and the assistance they may need.
Related Books Grades 2-4
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Niña bonita by Ana María Machado
The Red Comb/This Is How We Live
by Fernando Picó
Grandma’s Gift by Eric Velázquez
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Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Words by Margarita Engle
My Name is Celia. The Life of Celia Cruz by Mónica Brown
Related Books Grades 4-8
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I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
Silver People: Voices from the Panamá Canal by Margarita Engle
The Poet Slave of Cuba. A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle