Grade Level: 8-10
Subject Areas: Spanish and Social Studies
Time Required: 7-8 Class Periods
Prepared by: Kelly Mullen; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Keywords: Belonging, Borders, Chihuahuan Desert, Citizenship, Identity, Immigration, U.S.-Mexico Border
Grade Level: 10
Subject Areas: Language Arts
Time Required: 4-6 Weeks
Prepared by: April McNary, Sunnyslope High School, Phoenix AZ
Keywords: Language Arts, Research, Human Rights, Social Justice, Writing, Oral Histories, Political Poetry, Protest, Reading, Violations, Activism
Grade Level: 6 -12
Subject Areas: World History, (AP) U.S. History, (AP) Government, English
Time Required: 150 minutes (3 class periods)
Prepared by: Adrian Jurado, Del Valle High School, Del Valle Texas
Keywords: Social Construction, Race, Heritage, Ethnicity, Alien, Belonging, Borderlands Region (USA), Citizenship, Identity, Immigration, Media, Migrant, Migration
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Grade Level: 6 -10
Subject Areas: Language Arts and Social Studies/History
Time Required: 120 minutes
Prepared by: Ignacio Martinez and R. Joseph Rodriguez from The University of Texas at El Paso
Keywords: Alien, Belonging, Borderlands Region (USA), Chihuahuan Desert, Citizenship, Identity, Immigration, Media, Migrant, Migration, Treaty
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Grade Level: 10 -12
Subject Areas: Language Arts
Time Required: 5-6 50-minute class periods
Prepared by: Meredith F. Wales, educator at Skyview High School (Vancouver, WA)
Keywords: identity, culture, multiculturalism, worldview, immigrant, intersectionality, belonging, poetry, analysis, animation
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