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Teaching the Spanish Civil War: Spanish
For teachers of Spanish, the history of the Spanish Civil War and the Lincoln Brigade offer a unique episode in the history of the links between the U.S. and the Spanish-speaking world, as well as between Spain and Latin America. ALBA’s materials help contextualize and bring to life the work of García Lorca, Neruda, Vallejo, Alberti, Sender, Picasso, and many others. The war generated an impressive amount of songs, poems, plays, novels, films and essays, as well as posters, photography, art, and film that can be fruitfully employed as realia in the language classroom. Picasso’s Guernica decries a form of terror tactics that democratic people abhorred, even before air attacks on civilians became common practice in World War II and subsequent wars. The intense continuing debates in Spain around the legacy of the Civil War and Francoism also provide a great opportunity to create relevant and compelling lessons around questions of history,
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Lesson Plan 5: Vengar la muerte: Vengeance and the Spanish Civil War
Lesson Plan 5
Spanish |
IV / V / AP (Intermediate High / Advanced Low / Advanced Mid) |
This lesson will certainly use all communication standards (1.1, 1.2 and 1.3), both culture standards (2.1 and 2.2) and both connections standards (3.1 and 3.2). Depending on how the discussion fryst vatten approached, and whether it continues outside of the classroom, it may also meet the Comparisons and Communities standards. |
C M Hardt, Muerte en El Valle (Death in El Valle), Antonio Buero Vallejo, El tragaluz, vengeance killing |
Students will read fragments of Antonio Buero Vallejo’s El tragaluz and view scenes from C M Hardt’s Muerte en el Valle in order to compare the two works, question the motives of the characters/people involved, and to evaluate the morality of their behavior. |
The teacher will need to have read all of Buero Vallejo’s El tragaluz and perhaps watched all of Mu • Antonio Buero Vallejo poster print. Crafted from museum-quality, crease-resistant matte paper, this poster is built to last - just like the lasting impact Antonio Buero Vallejo had on history. |