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Reading/Discussion: Watch this YouTube video with your class and discuss the point of view of the creator. Please preview the video in order to determine if the photographs are too graphic for your students. There are many good pictures from the Spanish Civil War but some are of victims of the war. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUppeq9AY0
Possible unfamiliar vocabulary: chusma- mob, corromper- corrupt, cruento- bloody, derrotados- defeated
Example: “¿Qué significa ‘un pueblo hasta entonces explotado? ¿Según el video, los fascistas fueron explotados o los republicanos?”
Reading/Discussion: Read the biography of Francisco Franco at http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/f/franco.htm and answer the questions on the discussion sheet. After students have had the opportunity to read for the requested details, discuss the answers as a class. Discussion sheet questions
Reading/Discussion: Show the video “La Declaración de los Derechos Humanos” from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNybj6cIuM The video is a great pace for an upper level language classroom and you can use it as a jumping off point for discussion about the idea of Human Rights. Record a list of basic human rights.
Connections: Connect this lesson to other disciplines by having students do an internet search for the ranks of the Spanish army in the 1930s in comparison to the ranks of the US army in the 1930s. The insignia and shoulder ornamentation are different so the students can discuss their titles or the style of insignia they wear. Skim the Wikipedia entry to find the insignia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Army
Cara al sol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPsWwxqITY
Himno de riego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqarvkV3puI
Suggestion from Erin Osterland:
I have used the “20 mundos” emagazine on “Los horarios en España,” which mentions Franco adjusting Spain’s time to coincide with Germany’s…nice way to show relevance of history to today.
Thanks Erin!