My name is Julio.

I am Zapotec.

I live in Stockton, California.

I am Latino.

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Questions to Initiate and Guide the Creative Reading Dialogue

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Descriptive Phase

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Where is Julio from?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] What did you learn from him about Teotitlán del Valle? Can you imagine the town?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] How was the wool used in the tapestries prepared?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Why is having a truck so important for Julio’s family?

Personal Interpretive Phase

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Do you have an indigenous background? Do you know anyone who does?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Does anyone in your family work in the fields? Do you know any farm-working family?

Critical/Multicultural/Anti-Bias Phase

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] What do you know about the indigenous cultures of Latin America?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Were you surprised at how the teacher responded when she asked Julio where he was at that moment
and Julio responded Monte Albán?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Based on the teacher’s response, what do you think about that teacher?

Creative/ Transformative Phase

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Farm workers have suffered great injustices by not being protected in the same way others workers are protected. What do you think about this?
[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Why must we all be grateful to farm workers? How can we express our solidarity?

Weavers from Teotitlán del Valle

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Monte Albán, Oaxaca, México

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Activities Students Can Do Individually or in Groups

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Under the non-violent leadership of César Chávez, farm workers found different ways to awaken public opinion. What were some of these ways and how effective were they?

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] After researching the lives of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, students can:
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Make a time-line history of their lives
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Write their biographies
[wc_fa icon=”caret-right” margin_left=”30px” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Tell the biography of one of them in first person

[wc_fa icon=”arrow-right” margin_left=”” margin_right=””][/wc_fa] Students can make a mural depicting the work in the fields or showing important moments in the life of César or Dolores.