I have taught social justice lessons in the past, including for example child labor. My students are surprisingly interested in social justice issues. Relating the pertinent Spanish vocabulary to cultural lessons will help to reinforce the vocabulary and structures that my students will be working on mastering. This will also help to motivate them more to master the vocabulary and structures, as it will make it more pertinent to them. Our studies, although dealing with dictatorships in the Southern Cone, will always relate to other groups and locations in the world, including of course New Haven and other places in the US. This unit is relevant to each and every single one of my students.
