Students will be able to describe the narratives and perspectives constructed from monuments in the Vietnamese community and create a collection of monuments that build up their personal identities.
Students will analyze and reflect on the complex history, culture, successes and challenges that surround Vietnamese small businesses in Little Saigon through analyzing oral histories and Vietnamese discourse and creating a medium of choice.
Students will describe and reflect on reasons Vietnamese refugees moved to America, or their local communities, through a multimedia analysis and explore their own family history with an interview and creating a medium of choice.
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.
In this lesson, students will take what they have learned about biographies and about the life of General Vang Pao to write a biography of their own on a historical figure/influential person of their choice.
Students will be able to understand the importance of intergenerational storytelling by listening and discussing with an elder family or community member. Students will explain and describe their own migration and/or daily life story as a way to practice narrating their own stories.
Students will be able to explore the traditional Hmong musical instruments and understand the purpose of each instrument. Students will be able to make musical instruments from common everyday materials.
Students will be able to understand the importance of intergenerational storytelling by listening and discussing with an elder family/community member. Students will analyze the significance of different family structure’s impact on historical understanding by comparing and contrasting traditional Hmong family structures with their own.
