Students will analyze and reflect on the complex history, culture, successes and challenges that surround Vietnamese small businesses in Little Saigon through analyzing oral histories and Vietnamese discourse and creating a medium of choice.
In this lesson, students will take what they have learned about biographies and about the life of General Vang Pao to write a biography of their own on a historical figure/influential person of their choice.
Students will be able to understand the importance of intergenerational storytelling by listening and discussing with an elder family or community member. Students will explain and describe their own migration and/or daily life story as a way to practice narrating their own stories.
Students will be able to understand the importance of intergenerational storytelling by listening and discussing with an elder family/community member. Students will analyze the significance of different family structure’s impact on historical understanding by comparing and contrasting traditional Hmong family structures with their own.
