Yolanda U. Trapp
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
A. Lesson Plan I Designed for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade Level.
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Theme
: Selected Poems by Different Authors From a Variety of Latin American Countries.
Authors selected for the lesson:
a. Gabriela Mistral
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(Chile) Poems: “Close to Me”,
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“Apegado A Mi”, “Pan”, “Muro”,
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“La Noche”, “Night”, “Balada de la Estrella”. “Ballad of the Star”.
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b. Nicolás Guillén
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(Cuba) “Selected Poems”, “Un Son Para Ni–os Antillanos”, “Por El Mar De Las Antillas”, “Canto Para Matar Una Culebra”-”Sense Mayá,” “Chant for Killing a Snake”.
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c. Pablo Neruda
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(Chile) “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, “Oda Al Libro (II)”, “Ode To The Book(II)”, “Oda Al Tercer D’a”, “Ode To The Third Day”, “Oda Al Tomate”, “Ode to Tomatoes”.
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B. Lesson Plan II—designed for 3rd and 4th grades.
Theme
: Selected Short Novels, Stories and Poetry of the Latin Americas
Authors selected for the lesson:
a. Gabriel Garc’a Márquez
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(Colombia)
No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories
“One of these Days”.
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b. Pablo Neruda
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(Chile)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
” “Poems XV and XX”.
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C. Lesson Plan III designed for middle and high school students
Novels, Stories of the Latin Americas
Authors selected for the lesson:
a. Isabel Allende
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(Chile) Novel:
La Casa De Los Esp’ritus: The House of the Spirits
Story Selected: “La Ni–a Clara y su perro Barrabás”.
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b. Octavio Paz
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(Mexico) Poems: “La Arboleda”, “The Grove”, “Viento, Agua, Piedra”, “Wind, and Water and Stone”.
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c. Alberto Manguel (editor)
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(Argentina) “Short Fictions by Latin American Women.
Other Fires.
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