Designing Monuments of Central Americans in an ESOL Classroom

By Bryan Cockrell

I teach 9th grade students in Montgomery County, Maryland who are developing their English language proficiency. During Teach Central America Week, I asked my students what they had heard about monuments in the news. They described monuments they had seen in D.C. We looked at images of the "re-designed" Francis Scott Key statue in Baltimore and the statue of Edward Colston that Bristol residents threw into the water.