Click the link below to watch a video featuring what John W. Bate Middle School's Spanish Teacher Maria Luster is teaching her students during Hispanic Heritage Month.
John W. Bate Middle School's Spanish Teacher, Maria Luster, focused on different lessons for grade levels to recognize Hispanic Heritage Month. In her seventh and eighth-grade classes, she focused on artists and facts about the 21 Spanish-speaking countries of the world, for example.
Her seventh-grade class completed a lesson using a painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Separating the painting into sections, she gave each student in her small class a section to draw and color on a larger piece of paper. By the end of the lesson, the class will put all of the pieces together to create a complete piece of artwork, with each section done by a different student.
Her larger eighth-grade class completed worksheets that asked them to focus on a specific Spanish-speaking country. They drew the country's flag, where the country's capital is located on a map, and the country's animal. They also answered questions in Spanish about the countries' climates, places to visit in their assigned country, and so on.