Roleplay Focused on Guatemalan Freedom Fighters

Sally Stanhope, a social studies teacher at Chamblee High School in Chamblee, Georgia, used Central America: An Introductory Lesson with her students to help them learn about U.S. involvement in Central America and the activists who fought for democracy and popular sovereignty in their respective countries. Because most of Stanhope’s ESOL students are Guatemalan, she focused the lesson on Guatemalan freedom fighters like Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Otto René Castillo, Irma Flaquer Azurdia, and Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán.