This unit on immigration is intended for second-year Spanish students. Students are asked to write a journal each day to reflect on the material that has been presented and to examine their attitudes toward immigrants. The unit uses a poem by Gina Valdés, the movie El Norte, and various activities including a Family Immigration Activity to lead the students to discussion and reflection. Meredith Riemersma created this unit for Prof. David Smith’s foreign language methodology class at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI).

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Note: These questions are based on "Where you from?" by Gina Valdés. This poem can be found at http://ml.claremontmckenna.edu/erebhan/pdf%20Internet%20S05/Readings/aprender%20where%20Blues.pdf or in Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, to be published in 2006.