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 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 identify key factors that fostered Vietnamese refugees’ participation in the nail industry by analyzing segments of media clips and creating a zine.
Students will analyze different Vietnamese youth organizations centered around cultural preservation and create a fictional Vietnamese American event to illustrate their takeaways.
Students will be able to define and reflect on what identity means to them by drawing from various Vietnamese refugee experiences and creating their own poem. (The lesson objective can be broadened to students from other cultures as well).
Students will be able to generate civic engagement within Vietnamese American communities by identifying a specific issue, planning a project to address it, and presenting their proposals to the class.
Students will be able to describe the cultural, linguistic, and geographical differences of present-day Vietnam by exploring various sources and creating a collage.
Students will be able to identify and describe the changes in Vietnamese family dynamics along the acculturation process by engaging in a jigsaw activity and creating an identity collage.
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 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.
