Genoveva T. Palmieri
This exercise will be an inquiry by students in the learning of language and its impact. Students will read about "La Malinche-Translator," and her role during the conquest of Mexico. The students shall explore what reasons she might have had for carrying out her mission, stressing her language abilities as the central point
ASSIGNMENT
Read the story about the translator "La Malinche" during the conquest of Mexico. Write an essay of one hundred and fifty words about the following:
1. Why would you have taken on the responsibility to translate for the conquistadors?
2. What would you have done?
3. Can you try to imagine and describe what her life was like at that point in time?
