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| Title | Showing 'El Norte' in Class |
| Body | A recent discussion on the FLTEACH listserv about using the film "El Norte" as part of a unit on immigration in a Spanish class included the following Web site and suggestions. http://www2.bc.edu/~rusch/elnorte.html ---- We watched El Norte in my Spanish Cinema class a couple of months back. One thing we really focused on discussing was the myth of the "promise land." We talked about why the characters wanted to leave their country and what they were hoping to find in the U.S. We discussed what they actually encountered. We also discussed how the characters changed and what they became willing to do (Enrique was going to abandon his sister, even they vowed never to separate, for a better paying job away from the danger of La Migra). Discuss the cultural assimilation issues (are they positive or negative?) Another topic we discussed was the motives for immigration. We compared the motives of Enrique and Rosa with the motives of immigrants (from any country) that students might know personally. Under what circumstances did they arrive here? What would have happened to them if they had stayed in their own country? What kind of problems did they encounter upon crossing the border? What other options did they have if they did not leave their home country? Of course, this activity requires that someone in the class knows an immigrant OR students may know stories from grandparents who may have come to the U.S. as immigrants. Dover, R. Re: El Norte. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (1 May 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-06-09 20:00:00 |
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