E-Portfolio Projects
A “Festering Plague”?: The Dirty History of El Paso’s “Disinfecting” Stations
Grade Level: 9-11
Subject Areas: History/Humanities
Time Required: One 60-minute class period (with homework)
Prepared by: Lena Papagiannis; Boston, Massachusetts
Keywords: counter-narratives, historical thinking skills, sourcing, corroborating, DBQ, document-based question, eugenics, racism, Nativism, border policing, border security
Lesson One and Worksheet 1, Worksheet 2, and Worksheet 3 and Lesson Two and Materials
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Change and Continuity: Policing the Borderlands
Grade Level: Best suited for high school students, ideally Juniors and Seniors that are already familiar with historical thinking skill of Change and Continuity
Subject Areas: US History, Chicanx/Latinx History, Ethnic Studies, Government
Time Required: 2-3 weeks
Prepared by: Becky Villagrán; Berkeley, California
Keywords: Mexican-American War, Treaty of Hidalgo, Texas Rangers, Border Patrol, policing, police brutality, white supremacy, internalized racism, racial profiling, borderlands, political cartoons, change and continuity
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Lives on the Line: Listening to Voices from the Borderlands
Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Areas: Language Arts or History
Time Required: 120 minutes
Prepared by: Kimberly G. Kim; San Juan Capistrano, California
Keywords: border, borderlands, narrative, legislation, storytelling, monologues, poetry, migrant, immigration, identity, native american, stories, storytelling
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Construction of Ethnic Identities and Recovering Cultural Memory through Muralism in the Borderlands
Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Areas: Spanish Language Arts, AP Spanish Language and Culture, Social Studies
Time Required: 5 blocks of class instruction, 90 minutes each
Prepared by: Mary Aebischer, Las Lunas, New Mexico; Francisco Becerra, San Mateo, California
Keywords: Muralismo, mural, identidad, historia, frontera, Nepantla, bilingüe, bicultural, binacional, conflicto cultural, insolación, segregación, marginación
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Bilingualism, Binationalism, and Bilteracy through José Antonio Burciaga
Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Areas: Spanish Language Arts, English Language Arts, Social Studies
Time Required: 450 minutes
Prepared by: Ricardo Valenzuela; Roswell, New Mexico
Keywords: bilingualism, binationalism, biliteracy, nicknaming, identity, Mexican, Chicano(a), Latino(a), Spanish, English, Anglo-American, literature, fluency, mistranslation, caló, tradition
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