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Week 16: December 12 - 16
This week we'll be continuing our investigation into immigration policies. We'll wrap up our investigation of what caused the National...
Adam Sanchez
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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Week 15: December 5 - 9
We'll start this week by developing questions for our immigration oral history interviews. After that we'll participate in a mixer to...
Adam Sanchez
Dec 9, 20221 min read
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Week 14: November 28 - December 2
This week we'll be focusing on Chicanx/Latinx activism starting with a jigsaw where we'll research and present our findings to the class...
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Nov 23, 20221 min read
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Week 13: November 21 - 23
This week we'll be broadening our focus from Mexico to look at immigration from Latin America more generally. We'll be investigating the...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
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Week 12: November 14 - 18
Your homework for this week is to read about the Bracero program and "Operation Wetback." This will fill in the time gap as we jump to...
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Nov 16, 20221 min read
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Week 11: November 7 - 22
This week we'll pause our mini-unit on Mexican American history to complete our end-of-quarter reflection, think about what we've...
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Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Week 10: October 31 - November 5
This week we'll focus on the Mexican deportations that happened in the 1930s and hold an in class trial to determine who is to blame for...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Week 9: October 24 - 28
We'll start this week by celebrating our Indigenous Resistor projects and working on our end-of-unit reflection. Next, we'll start our...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 21, 20221 min read
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Week 8: October 17 - 21
This week we'll mostly be working on our end-of-unit project about Indigenous resistors. We'll wrap up the week with an end-of-unit...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 14, 20221 min read
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Week 7: October 11 - 14
This week we'll wrap up our unit on Indigenous resistance by participating in a role play on the protests against the Dakota Access...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 9, 20221 min read
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Week 6: October 3 - 7
This week we'll focus on the Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 70s. We'll start by watching a documentary on the American Indian...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 2, 20221 min read
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Week 5: September 27 - 30
This week we'll focus on American Indian resistance. We'll start with a jigsaw on early moments of resistance and discuss the Indian...
Adam Sanchez
Sep 23, 20221 min read
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Week 4: September 19 - 23
This week we'll start by watching Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). The film gives the American Indian perspective on “the winning of...
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Sep 16, 20221 min read
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Week 3: September 12 - 16
This week we'll look at the origin of the United States — focusing on how three different origin stories shape three very different views...
Adam Sanchez
Sep 9, 20221 min read
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Week 2: September 6 - 9
We'll start our first unit this week, looking at the origins of the United States from an indigenous perspective. In addition to your...
Adam Sanchez
Sep 3, 20221 min read
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Week 1: August 29 - September 2
Welcome! I'm very excited to meet you all (and see some of you again)! We'll start our course this week by developing some looking at the...
Adam Sanchez
Jul 30, 20221 min read
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