Students will be able to trace the genealogy of the stereotypes to gang influence and other socio-cultural environmental factors that Vietnamese American youth in the postwar generation faced (in the late 1990s through early 2000s) by analyzing various multimedia sources and drawing connections with their own identity and experiences in a personal free verse reflection.
Students will be able to describe the role of Vietnamese language newspapers, particularly Người Việt Daily News, in the formation of Little Saigon and the Vietnamese American identity by creating a fictional letter.
Students will explore how different waves of immigration experiences (including factors of language and education) may impact the dynamic of Vietnamese families by analyzing various sources and creating a fictional dialogue.
Students will be able to describe the challenges and hardships experienced by the Vietnamese people from life at the “re-education” camps by participating in a World Cafe discussion and completing a fictional journal entry.
Students will describe the social life of the Vietnamese in exile and during the Vietnam War by analyzing three songs from major Vietnamese song composers and creating a modern day playlist.
Students will complete a flow map that outlines the process of Hmong becoming refugees, and their experiences towards becoming American citizens.
The primary objective of this lesson is to shed light on the challenges HMoob families face as they journey to Thailand while highlighting the variations in their migration patterns. Through this teaching, students will comprehend the disparities between migration accounts found in narratives and those derived from personal experiences of their own families or relatives.
Students will have a better understanding of the story behind their name and be able to describe themselves and their various intersecting identities.
Students will be able to identify and explain how Buddhism, including the wat and sangha supported the healing process of many Cambodian Americans.
Students will interact and critically analyze poetry by Cambodian American poets to connect universal thematic ideas of human experience/human condition, specifically to Cambodian diaspora.
