Latino Culture: Who are the Latinos?

This lesson plan is designed for students to learn exactly what and where Latin America is.
Essential questions:

• Who are the Latinos?
• Where is Latin America?

Thursday, June 13: Who are Latinos?

• What does it mean to be Latino? (15 minutes)
• Discussion:
• Spanish, Hispanic, Latino, and specific countries (Mexican, etc.)
• culture/ethnicity v. race
• Latin America
• What is America?
• Where is Latin America? (15 minutes)
• Brief overview, including environment, geography, populations, etc
• Activity: Create a map of Latin America (including USA due to high population of Latin Americans) (30 minutes)
• Determine and assign roles
• Use a reference map
• Use large piece of paper and work as a team to create a map
• Label the country and the capital
• Use brackets to mark the capital - reinforce and add clip around brackets for country-fact notecards
• Explain that we'll add these throughout - whenever you learn a fact about a country, write it on a notecard and add it!  Include your name
• Countries and Capitals of Spanish-speaking countries