Mary Johnson replied to a comment on link Discover Puerto Rico, USA
Cheryl Davis
, the map in the Worlds Revealed blog is gorgeous! I was thinking that for a geography lesson, a teacher could show photographs of Puerto Rico today (or historically), then hand out the map. Students would use their analytical skills to suggest what they think the different colors and patterns might indicate and what they think might have changed in the decades since the map was created. At the end of the activity, the teacher could project the legend for the great reveal.
And along the lines of “if you see something, say something”
Blog post, Worlds Revealed Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress: A Patchwork of Plantations in Puerto Rico November 1, 2024 Posted by: 
Amelia Raines
Just Lovely!
Cheryl Davis commented on link Discover Puerto Rico, USA
And along the lines of “if you see something, say something”
Blog post, Worlds Revealed Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress: A Patchwork of Plantations in Puerto Rico November 1, 2024 Posted by: Amelia Raines
Just Lovely!
Discover Puerto Rico, USA
Don't miss this great new album created by 
Michelle Zupan
and posted in the TPS Commons.
Julie Schaul created link Discover Puerto Rico, USA
Don't miss this great new album created by
Michelle Zupan
and posted in the TPS Commons.
Puerto Rico
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Chicago's Puerto Rican Community Welcomes indigenous Taíno Council Sharing History, Culture
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-puerto-rican-community-indigenous-taino-council/
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture https://nmprac.org/
Yo Soy (I am): The Historical Trajectory of Language in Puerto Rico
Taíno Language Influence
https://guides.loc.gov/language-in-puerto-rico/taino-language
Rich Cairn commented on discussion Puerto Rican Identity Unit from Emerging America
Puerto Rico
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Thanks, Mary!
Credit to the teachers of Holyoke, Massachusetts who helped to develop these materials.
Puerto Rican Identity Unit from Emerging America
Puerto Rican Identity
I want to be sure everyone in this group is aware of an outstanding set of lessons from Emerging America, a TPS Consortium member. It's called Puerto Rican Identity, and it includes helpful historical context, three different approaches to teaching with primary sources, and complete sets of Library of Congress primary sources that include images, audio files, maps, manuscripts, and music. It also follows Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
From the lesson description:
Model Lesson for Engagement: In Puerto Rican Identity, students examine documents and other primary sources showing various generations of Puerto Ricans engaging with Anglo-American culture while preserving their cultural identity.
Cultural Considerations:
An essential facet of engagement is to ensure that materials and approaches are culturally relevant for the particular students in your classroom.
Puerto Ricans Arriving in at Newark airport, 1947
I would also suggest checking out all three Classroom Activity Ideas. Although geared to this unit, they would work well with all sorts of primary sources lessons no matter what the content.
- Timeline Activity: Have students sort photographs from the primary source set into chronological order. Provide students with key event dates. Ask students to reflect on the ways that early events may effect current identity of Puerto Rican Americans.
- Perspective-Taking: Ask students to choose one person from a photograph or audio-recording. After carefully analysis, students will select a perspective from which they will write or speak. Use the photograph or recording to create questions that will launch research to inform students’ writing.
- Semantic Mapping: Semantic Mapping leads to written end products. Students will have a graphic organizer with the categories where each image might fall under. They have to check off the categories where the images might be categorize and explain on a space provided in the organizer why they selected that category.
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 Social Studies/History Bilingual Education/ESL Puerto Rico Teaching Strategies
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Mary Johnson created discussion Puerto Rican Identity Unit from Emerging America
Puerto Rican Identity
I want to be sure everyone in this group is aware of an outstanding set of lessons from Emerging America, a TPS Consortium member. It's called Puerto Rican Identity, and it includes helpful historical context, three different approaches to teaching with primary sources, and complete sets of Library of Congress primary sources that include images, audio files, maps, manuscripts, and music. It also follows Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
From the lesson description:
Model Lesson for Engagement: In Puerto Rican Identity, students examine documents and other primary sources showing various generations of Puerto Ricans engaging with Anglo-American culture while preserving their cultural identity.
Cultural Considerations:
An essential facet of engagement is to ensure that materials and approaches are culturally relevant for the particular students in your classroom.
Puerto Ricans Arriving in at Newark airport, 1947
I would also suggest checking out all three Classroom Activity Ideas. Although geared to this unit, they would work well with all sorts of primary sources lessons no matter what the content.
- Timeline Activity: Have students sort photographs from the primary source set into chronological order. Provide students with key event dates. Ask students to reflect on the ways that early events may effect current identity of Puerto Rican Americans.
- Perspective-Taking: Ask students to choose one person from a photograph or audio-recording. After carefully analysis, students will select a perspective from which they will write or speak. Use the photograph or recording to create questions that will launch research to inform students’ writing.
- Semantic Mapping: Semantic Mapping leads to written end products. Students will have a graphic organizer with the categories where each image might fall under. They have to check off the categories where the images might be categorize and explain on a space provided in the organizer why they selected that category.
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 Social Studies/History Bilingual Education/ESL Puerto Rico Teaching Strategies
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