Los Pensamientos (Warm Up)

Homework on desk: Letter to Yanga

Índice del trabajo/ Table of Contents:

Pg 20 Preguntas/Questions for Afro Latino Powerpoint

Los Pensamientos:
Who was Yanga?
What does African Americans’ history and Afro
Latinos’ history have in common?
 Objetivos de hoy/ Today’s Objectives
• Identify examples of Afro Latino
communities in Spanish speaking countries
• Explain how the African diaspora
happened
• Rephrase examples of why Spanish is
important to Afro Latinos
 Escrito rápido/ Quick Write

Write your opinion in answer to this

question:

Are all Spanish speakers “brown?” Is

there such a thing as a Spanish speaker
who is of African descent?
Computer Policy
 Afro Latino Powerpoint
1. Get out page 20 “Afro Latinos
Powerpoint Questions”
2. When you are called on, get the
computer assigned to you from the cart
3. Go to this website:
http://espanol1nonativos.posterous.com
4. Download/open the powerpoint listed under
September 25th
5. Complete the questions by going through the
powerpoint, videos, and websites
 Afro Latino Powerpoint
http://espanol1nonativos.posterous.com
If the website doesn’t work, ask Ms. Mehl
for the USB

When you finish:

• Put your computer, shut down, on the corner of
your desk
• Get out your maps and notes to study for the test
on Tuesday
 Afro Latino Powerpoint
Be ready to share your answers…

6) "Hispanics are not a race but members of a

group with a common cultural background.
To put all of us in the same bag is just
ridiculous."

–Eddy Bello and Ronald Flecha

Do you agree or disagree? Why?

 Afro Latino Powerpoint
Be ready to share your answers…

7) Which area on the map had the most slaves

immigrate to it? How many slaves where
there?
 Afro Latino Powerpoint
Be ready to share your answers…

• Which area on the map had the most slaves

immigrate to it? How many slaves where
there?
Brazil 3,325,000
 Afro Latino Powerpoint
Be ready to share your answers…

8) How many Afro-descendants are in Latin

America?
 Afro Latino Powerpoint
Be ready to share your answers…

8) How many Afro-descendants are in Latin

America?

80 million to 150 million

 El cierre
Closing
Get out your Agenda Española and look at the box “Pregunta
del cierre” (Closing question)

In that box answer these questions:

• What is one example of a country where there
are Afro Latinos?
• What do you share in common with Afro
Latinos?

Return your computer to the cart when Ms. Mehl calls on you
Get out your intervention card when you finish.