Students will summarize the education conditions for first, 1.5, and second generation Vietnamese Americans and then determine recommendations to create conditions for a more inclusive school setting today.
Students will be able to explain how Vietnamese refugees experienced intersecting systems of oppression upon their arrival to the US by interacting with primary sources to create a fictional newspaper article.
Students will analyze the role of religion in shaping Vietnamese American communities, specifically focusing on its impact on community activism, cultural preservation, and intergenerational relationships, by interacting with various text and video sources and creating a poster.
Students will be able to connect themes of emotion to the separation and loss experienced by the Vietnamese refugee community through an analysis of music and a short response.
After examining public opinion and demographics discussed in textbooks, students will examine data related to Hmong American communities by: (1) Drawing inferences to ideological learnings and partisanship and connect this to US electoral politics; (2) Learning about the close margins in current electoral politics and the impact of the Hmong vote in a battleground state, such as Wisconsin; and (3) Examining how congressional district demographics impact constituent services by examining HR 8110.
Students will consider how changes to the United States policy and the impact of the Refugee Act of 1980 impacted Cambodian Refugees including resettlement in the United States.
Students will learn about how the Hmong were forced from their villages and home to eventually leave Laos after the communist succeeded in taking over Vietnam and Laos. Students will explore the reasons for the forced migrations and create a short essay or presentation to share the refugee experience.
This lesson is the last of four on Hmong Family Practices and Values. This lesson explores Hmong beliefs about death and reincarnation through an examination of ceremonial practices and oral traditions. Students will gain an understanding of the connections between birth, marriage, and funerals.
This lesson is the third of four on Hmong Family Practices and Values. This lesson explores Hmong marriage practices, where students analyze descriptions of ceremonial wedding practices in Hmong culture, specifically the symbolism of wedding artifacts. Students will also analyze the representation of gender roles within Hmong marriage practices, which offers opportunities for discussion around issues of patriarchal and colonial systems in Hmong marriage practices past and present.
Students will be able to define generational trauma and link past Cambodian American experiences to generational trauma.
