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| Title | Teaching idea: Postage Stamp |
| Body | FLTEACH members offered the following suggestions in response to this query: I was thinking of having my 6th & 7th graders make "postage" stamps of Famous Hispanic Americans as a project for Hispanic Heritage month. Have any of you ever done a project llike this and if so, would you be willing to share your thoughts and ideas on this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did this two years ago and I thought it was successful. I showed them a framed collection of all the US stamps with a Hispanic theme, we did some readings about famous Hispanic Americans and events (everything from the Ludlow Massacre to Sammy Sosa), and I set parameters: rather than current sports and entertainment figures, they had to choose important DEAD people. Which, I believe, is the same as the US Postal Service parameters. That kept people from fighting over Jennifer Lopez... Besides, I think the kids need to know about the pioneers in different fields, such as Esteban Bellan in baseball and Desi Arnaz in television, without whom Sammy Sosa and the various people in entertainment would not be where they are. I included scientists, politicians, Gregorio Cortez, etc. I did a similar project about five years ago that grew into a web site that you might find useful for more advanced students, or for yourself as an idea for subjects: www.cfbisd.edu/schools/smi/raza Stacy, C. Re: Postage Stamp. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (25 Aug. 2004). It's a great project. I do a similar one for the sites in Paris. I got to talk about money, history, culture. The kids presented their stamps to the rest of the class. I had to... Pick the places that they could choose from. Write a model of the script for the presentation. Remind them about the project and presentation Rubrics and revisit those. They turned a final draft of their talk to me. I had trouble with: Students not having access to a computer to do web searches. I ended up downloading short articles about many of the places from the Paris pages. I got some really nice things for open house. Norman, C. Re: Postage Stamp. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (25 Aug. 2004). |
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