Friday, March 10, 2017

Ekeko - Day 9

Since it is Friday and I wasn't confident that 100% of the students understood the letter section of Chapter 5, we went back today as a class and Smash-doodled our way through the text. I presented the middle of Chapter 5 (the letter and the explanation of Alasitas) with a Power Point so that we could study just a few sentences at a time and to give students a visual to further aid in understanding.

As I read, students doodled and labeled their doodles. Some of them hate drawing with a passion, so I also provided an option to color my doodles and label them. Here is my Smash Doodle coloring page (not beautiful, but usable). Students had to doodle at least 5 things and write at least 30 words in Spanish, but the main point was slowing down and carefully reading the text.

I also had students "re-enact" the blockade of La Paz (in a very simplified way). It went a little like this:
"Hay un grupo de personas. Son los indios. Son las personas nativas de Bolivia. Son bolivianos. Los indios están contentos. Trabajan, comen, juegan y bailan. Viven contentos en las montañas. Pero hay un problema. Hay otro grupo de personas. Son los españoles. Los españoles son de España. Quieren dinero y poder. Van hacia Bolivia y toman las montañas de los indios. Construyen la ciudad de La Paz. En La Paz, los españoles tienen el dinero y el poder. Ellos viven contentos, pero los indios están tristes porque los españoles toman la tierra de Bolivia. Los bolivianos trabajan, pero los españoles tienen el poder y el dinero. Un boliviano, Tupac Katari, tiene una idea. Tiene un plan. Su idea es bloquear la ciudad de La Paz. Los indios van y bloquean las calles por las montañas. Ahora los españoles no tienen comida. No pueden escapar. Tienen hambre."

Hearing the story and seeing student actors re-enact the historical events seemed to make the light go on in several students eyes. As I looked over the doodle pages, it was clear that students were acquiring new words and understanding the story better now.

The last section of text talked about modern Ekekos, so we looked at a few pictures of those. This sparked yet another controversy - El Ekeko smokes! And we would NEVER celebrate anything like that, right? Except, several bright students pointed out, for Santa Claus and Frosty the Snowman, two children's characters who are consistently seen smoking. We did, however, chant the mantra "FUMAR. ES. MALO." several times.

1 comment:

  1. Hola -

    Me pregunto si puedes compartir tu powerpoint que usas con este capitulo? bpflug@nw-tigers.org

    Mil gracias!

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