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Crossroads of Culture
Fall 2006

A topical newsletter for social studies teachers in grades 4-8
Distributed three times each school year (fall-winter-spring)
by the Institute of Texan Cultures.

Emma Tenayuca, 1930s Civil Rights Leader
Read and print a copy of this issue.

Click here or call 210-458-2259 to order the 9-minute DVD Texans One and All: Emma Tenayuca

Resources for newsletter activities:

• Historical Photographs Slide Show La Pasionaria: The Story of Emma Tenayuca (PPT) (Approximately 3 minutes: script below.)
• Historical Photographs Slide Show: The San Antonio Pecan Shellers' Strike of 1938 (PPT) (Approximately 2 minutes: script below.)
• Lesson Plans for Grades 4-6 (30 minutes).
  Frame of Reference "A Strike in San Antonio in the 1930s"
• Frame of Reference Lesson Plans (print one)
• Pecan Strike PowerPoint Script (print one)
• Frame of Reference Student Resource Page (print one classroom set)
• Frame of Reference Student Worksheet (print one per student)
• "La Pasionaria" Power Point Script (print two)
• Lesson Plans for Grade 7 and older.
  Texas Civil Rights Leaders: Emma Tenayuca (Comparison activity to reinforce lessons about James Farmer, Dr. Hector Garcia, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Lyndon B. Johnson)
• Civil Rights Leaders Lesson Plans (print one)
• "La Pasionaria" Power Point Script (print two).
• Civil Rights Leaders Answer Sheet (print one)
• Civil Rights Leaders Student Worksheet (print one per student)
• Texas Civil Rights Leaders Webliography (print or set up as "home page" in computer lab)
• Grades 4-8 Review and Report to Home: Emma Tenayuca Crossword Puzzle (print one per student)
• Oral History Interview with Emma Tenayuca by Jerry Poyo, Ph.D.
• TEKS applications of these activities

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