Students will be able to apply their knowledge of the Vietnamese American experience and conduct a full oral-history interview with a member of the Vietnamese American community and synthesize their findings into a presentation.
There are many success stories of Hmong individuals creating and making an impact in their communities. Students will research a Hmong individual and share what impacts that individual has on the Hmong community and the broader US community by producing a written or visual product of their selected individual.
Students will learn the roots of the Hmong people in China and how displacement through persecution and war has led to the Hmong migrating south to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Through a platform of their choice, students will summarize and express the origin and identity of Hmong people and how it has been impacted by a history of being colonized, persecuted, and stateless.
The objective of this lesson is to understand the way Hmong people give names to their children and how their names can be changed as they become adults (npe laus).
Students will be introduced to then analyze the work of Cambodians and Cambodian Americans throughout history. In doing so, students will analyze the importance of the Cambodian/Cambodian American individuals’ works. Students can further their research about Cambodian culture by making connections with the works of Cambodians and Cambodian Americans to Cambodian history and culture.
