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.
By engaging with various cultural products such as literature, artwork, performance, fashion, and media. Students will use cultural products to create memories and to heal the injustices of the past.
Students will interact and critically analyze poetry by Cambodian American poets to connect universal thematic ideas of human experience/human condition, specifically to Cambodian diaspora.
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of elements, purpose, and cultural significance of traditional Cambodian dance. Students will also explore why traditional dance is considered a crucial link to Cambodian history and how efforts to preserve it have been made by refugees. Finally, they will develop skills in using primary and secondary sources to express their thoughts both orally and in writing.
Students will listen to music as sociopolitical testimonies to analyze genocide—not only as physical violence, but also structural and cultural violence on a whole community.
Students will interact and critically analyze texts on Cambodian food as it pertains to memory and identity.
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.
