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Integrating Culture: Arts in the Foreign Language Classroom
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This session is designed to help you incorporate visual art into your classroom cultural experience. Art is a great way to integrate culture into vocabulary and even grammar activities. Students who have had no exposure to art have little appreciation of art - so as a teacher, you have a great opportunity to open a new door to them - the door of life experiences (both personal and cultural) as presented through art. Art is an expression of passion - and your students, can appreciate art works - otherwise known as "cultural products that may express cultural perspectives."

This session is to help you look for ways to incorporate visual art into your classroom cultural experience. Art is a great way to integrate culture into vocabulary and even grammar actiities. Students who have had no exposure to art, also have no appreciate of art - so as a teacher, you have a great opportunity to open a new door to them. . . the door of life experiences (both personal and cultural) as presented through art. Art is an expression of passion - and your students, like mine, can appreciate art works - otherwise known as "cultural products that may express cultural perspectives."

**I love art!** Not everyone does or will, but an understanding of art can help your students better understand culture. Art is an expression of culture and experience. This session will present ways to introduce 11 Hispanic artists to your students. You will be mixing art with vocabulary and grammar and leave with strategies and resources to create activities in all three modes: interpretive, presentational and interpersonal.


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IN THIS WIKI YOU WILL FIND:

 * Information and Resources to investigate Hispanic Art
 * Activities highlighting 11 famous Hispanic Arrtists __(3 Spanish classic / 3 Spanish modern / 3 Mexican / 2 Other)__
 * Links to YouTube Videos featuring contemporary artists
 * Worksheets and Activities to use with an art lesson and/or unit
 * An introduction to Art Terms
 * Quick ways to incorporate art into a lesson
 * References/Resources