Stories From Teaching Central America Week, 2022

Teach Central America Week
Written By Mykella Palmer

Jennifer Carcamo's middle school students in Newark, New Jersey enjoyed Inside the Volcano: A Curriculum on Nicaragua, Geography is History: Located the Countries of Central America, and Salvadoran History Through Poetry.

Kristoffer Bonilla played the film Harvest of Empire for his high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana to introduce the root causes of the immigration crisis.

Amanda Flayer used Margarito's Forest as a title for reading circles with 4th-6th grade students in Coarsegold, California. Students read the book with a reading mentor and discussed themes of community movements, environmental values and cultural preservation.

Mykella Palmer
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