NATIONAL STANDARDS: COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITIES
Imagine that your classroom is a newspaper office and each student is a reporter. Each student will write an article for the special edition of the newspaper for Hispanic Heritage Month.
ACTIVITY: Engage in conversations
- Interview a Hispanic student, teacher, or administrator in your school
- Interview a Hispanic person in your community (neighbor, employee in a business/ restaurant, community leader, etc.).
- Conduct a phone interview with a Hispanic you know in another city.
ACTIVITY: Provide and obtain information
- Write an email to a Spanish-speaking pen pal in a Hispanic country or another part of the United States.
- Write a letter to a Hispanic government official (local, state, national) or a consulate from a Spanish-speaking country in the United States requesting specific information.
- Submit questions of interest to a journalist in a Spanish newspaper/journal or a Spanish TV or radio personality.
