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.
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.
This lesson is the continuation to Part I lesson that focuses on war and home. Part II focuses on how wars affect people’s relationships with homelands. Students will use the US’s Secret War in Laos as a case study to show how war disrupted Hmong people’s lives and homes and explore how displaced individuals and groups create home and belonging in the United States.
War displaces people from their homes and transforms communities all over the world. This lesson is the introduction of two lessons that focus on war and home. Students will learn about the historical context of Hmong involvement and experience during the US’s Secret War in Laos to explore how war affects people’s concept of home.
Students will be able to describe the cultural attitudes and visions of the Vietnamese American refugee community that stem from the early stages of the Republic of Vietnam by analyzing literary and musical text and producing a medium of choice.
Students will be able to analyze the intricate historical context of Vietnam between 1946-1954 and engage in a debate aimed to critically analyze different perspectives on the formation and governance of Vietnam.
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.
Students will learn from first-hand accounts of the chemical warfare that occurred after the Secret War and how it impacted Hmong people. Students will have the opportunity to weigh in and decide for themselves whether the struggles the Hmong people faced can be considered a genocide.
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).
