Students will be able to trace and identify the origins of Hmong cuisine and community hubs in the United States through an exploration of diverse sources. They will connect these elements to the refugee experience and express their understanding by creating a personalized lunch box identity collage.
Students will examine the early stages of Vietnam’s history and analyze its development as an empire leading up to colonization by the French by creating a synthesis timeline.
This lesson is the second of four on Hmong Family Practices and Values. This lesson explores representations of Hmong beliefs regarding family and society through an examination of birth practices. Students will gain an understanding of Hmong ways of knowing, being, and doing around the importance of naming children in Hmong families.
This lesson is the first of four on Hmong Family Practices and Values. This lesson explores the representation of Hmong beliefs about family and society through an examination of ceremonial practices and oral traditions. Students will have a foundational understanding of Hmong ways of knowing, being, and doing.
Students will learn about Hmong clan structures and gender roles along with factors that shape people’s lives and their identities, such as the social structure of patriarchy (patrilocality/patrilineality).
Students will reflect on the life of Cambodians and Cambodian Americans in America, focusing on their journey of resiliency and the symbolic story of donuts and pink boxes.
Describe the impact of French colonialism on Vietnamese literature and music by comparing and contrasting two well known poets and their work.
Trace and explain the causes and consequences of French colonialism of Vietnam from 1858-1940 by gathering information in primary sources to write a short response.
