La ropa y la identidad

Designer: Claudia Quevedo-Webb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Instructional
University of Chicago

Targeted Learners Institution: University Level

Targeted Learners Background: Non-native speakers

Targeted Learners: Novice (Mid), Novice (High)

Social Justice Topic: The relationship between identity and clothing

Goals: To be able to use the vocabulary of clothing to reflect on how clothes have been used as a way of expression for minority groups in the target culture and their own.

Key words: affordable, Afrolatinos, afromexicanos, clothing, colonization, comparatives, criticism, doubt, duties, fashion, gender and number agreement, gender identity, gender roles, housing, identidad, identity, immigration, job ad, language, National identity, negation, nominal subjunctive, orgullo, poetry, present progressive, professions, racismo, resistance, sexual identity, social class, Spain, Spanglish, stereotypes, sustainable, villas miseria, work, work-space

Characteristics: Cultural focused, Awareness-raising

Type of materials (Images): pictures

Type of materials (Texts): article, independent online search

Type of materials (Audio-Visual): N/A

Task Type: Awareness-raising, Description, Presentation

Cognitive Skills: Identifying, Researching, Discussing, Presenting, Producing

Language Skills: Reading comprehension, Reading to speak / to write, Speaking / Pronunciation

World-Readiness Standards: Communications, Connections, Cultures

3Ps: Practices