Teaching Culture: Beyond Language
Deborah Peck
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Section II—Los Ejercicios
The title page of this section should be illustrated with a map of Spain or Puerto Rico or Mexico. Students can use an atlas to trace their maps. These beginning maps should be very simple, and should only include bordering countries, bodies of water, rivers, mountains, and capital city. This will help students to develop the concept of separate and distinct countries within continents. (Most of my students have no concept of this in 7th or 8th grade.) Questions can be asked as a follow-up assignment in which students must infer answers from studying their maps (i.e. climate, sports). These maps can be added to during the year. A culminating hands-on activity might be the preparation of a large relief map.