This is my first time teaching this novel, and the conversations it has prompted in class have been beyond my expectations. Follow me on twitter my tweets follow blog via email. This book is a bit heavy, but i think it will be engaging and students will think about and process a variety of topics. If you have taught many novels, these activities will be easy to implement. Tal como entre personas en una pandilla, una familia, y entre amores. If youre looking for a great read for your level 34 classes, this is so engaging. Oct 09, 2016 posts about vida y muerte salvatrucha written by dustin williamson. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. This show takes a look at one of americas most feared hispanic street gangs ms. For additional resources, i have been using the teachers guide great activities and also the incredible carrie toths blog, somewhere to share.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. This book is an inside look at gang life in one of the worlds most dangerous gangs. He mentions how his successful gang missions lead him to a position as a leader in his clique and details how he brings. Preteaching and chapter 1 if you have taught many novels, these activities will be easy to implement. I give them vocabulary that they need to acquire, background cultural knowledge, and i hook them.
We read it in level 4 and i always like to do a lot of prereading activities to prepare the students for the novel. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Her students were required to create an entry for each chapter, and each entry had to include words, sentences and images. Mara salvatrucha ms the ruthless hispanic street gang. This extensive film study unit is designed to be used with upperlevel students i have used it with spanish 3 and spanish 4. It will also be a great segue to our immigration unit. Im just starting vida y muerte with my 3s this week, and was a bit overwhelmed by the plethora of.
He mentions how his successful gang missions lead him to a position as a leader in his clique and details how he brings in money for the gang. Mara salvatrucha, lala mara salvatrucha also known as ms or ms, whose name roughly translates as the gang of the clever salvadorans, is a youth gang with more than 100,000 members organized in cliques or factions. I found the book to be interesting and very descriptive. I have been taking spanish for a year now and learned up to future tense, but this book was mostly written in. Chapter 2 all activities are created and posted with written consent from to accompany the novel in chapter 2 of vida y muerte but this would also be a great fit for chapter 3 of.
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