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Connecticut Department of Education
Subject:
Arts and Humanities, U.S. History, World History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Level:
High School
Grade:
9, 10, 11, 12
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CT State Department of Education
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Lesson 4.2-3: Resistance in Latin American and Puerto Rican History: Timeline of the Movers and the Shakers

Lesson 4.2-3: Resistance in Latin American and Puerto Rican History: Timeline of the Movers and the Shakers

Overview

Big Ideas/Topics to be Addressed, including Key Concepts and Terms 

  • Resistance heroes and sheroes (some examples) 

  • Pedro Albizu Campos 

  • Hernan Badilla 

  • Ramon Emeterio Betances  

  • Miguel Hidalgo 

  • Jose Marti  

  • Vidal Santiago Diaz 

  • Arturo Schomburg 

  • Lolita Lebron  

  • Blanca Canales 

  • Marianna Bracetti  

  • Dominga de La Cruz Becerril 

  • Isabel Rosado 

  • U.S. relationship with resistance heroes 

Materials/Resources/Speakers

Recommended Learning Activities, including UDL Principles/Scaffolded Supports and Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning Opportunities

Day 1 

Initiation: Using background information on Pedro Albizu Campos, invite students to investigate other figures from Latin America (some figures listed above). Have students generate questions that they would like to answer about these heroes and sheroes. 

Activity: After students generate questions about one of the figures above, have each student choose one person, and find information and a biography by doing research.  Have students use a graphic organizer to organize their learning. Students write a monologue about the person they chose and read the monologue to the class or record ahead of time and share. Students share monologues/recordings. 

Alternate Activity: Pedro Albizu Campos- War Against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party - YouTube (26:11).  Ask students to answer and discuss the following questions with each other: Who was Pedro Albizu Campos? Why is he so important not only for Puerto Ricans, but for All of the United States? In the video when Nelson Denis said, “What happens in Puerto Rico never happened at all?”, what does he mean?  

Closing: Students discuss and reflect what surprised and inspired them about “these Movers and Shakers.” 

Options for Content Continuity Across History Courses and Interdisciplinary Integration

English  

Spanish 

Humanities 

Sociology 

Anthropology 

 

Extensions/Experiential Opportunities

Exploring coexistence through resistance and revolution. The Dominican Republican and Haiti are two halves on a whole island.  

Read Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century 

Students research how the themes of resistance and revolution have manifested in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Have the two cultures worked with and against one another to achieve freedom? Explain why or why not.