Students will trace the relationships and make connections between refugee trauma, criminalization, community organizing, and collective healing by critically evaluating narratives of assimilation or the model minority and engaging with primary source materials to create an infographic.
Students will be able to analyze and reflect on the complex history, culture, successes, and challenges that surround Vietnamese small businesses in Little Saigon by analyzing oral histories and Vietnamese discourse and creating a medium of choice.
Students will be able to analyze and interpret the historical and personal significance of the Vietnamese refugee experience by examining song lyrics and biographies of composers related to the refugee experience, as well as engaging in a several-week project that involves research, discussion, script-writing, video production, technology application, and a final presentation.
Students will be able to describe major details of the most common routes for the first wave of Vietnamese refugees by creating an interactive map.
After defining the characteristics of American business industries and how they came to be, students will research successful Hmong contributions that either provide continuity or change in various industries and what effects this contribution can have on society.
Through learning about the early settlement of Hmong communities in California and Central Valley, students will gain an understanding of highly populated locations/demographics and examples of civic engagement, economies, and cultural festivities of the Hmong communities.
No specific prior learned background information is needed, but rather former knowledge of one's own and other cultures, based on previously viewed photos. Culture can be defined as shared behaviors, values, customs and beliefs in a society. Culture will shape how a group interacts with the world around them. However, the teacher should have a clear understanding of the Cambodian cultures presented through the previewed photographs to clarify and help guide students through analysis of the photographs. They can reference this resource if they need additional information https://www.britannica.com/place/Cambodia/Cultural-life.
