México y Centroamérica

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Pasaporte
a
México
y
Centroamérica
Fourth Grade
Spanish Language Experience
organized by the
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
New York University
Apellidos
(paterno)_______________________________________
(fotografía)
(materno)______________________________________
Nombres:
________________________________________
Fecha de nacimiento: día (circle the number of the day of the month you were born)
uno
dos
tres
cuatro
cinco
seis
siete
ocho
nueve
diez
once
doce
trece
catorce
quince
dieciséis
diecisiete
dieciocho
diecinueve
veinte
veintiuno
veintidós
veintitres
veinticuatro
veinticinco
veintiséis
veintisiete
veintiocho
veintinueve
treinta
treinta y uno
Fecha de nacimiento: mes (circle the name of the month in which you were born)
enero
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo
junio
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre
Fecha de nacimiento: año (circle the number of the year of your birth)
mil novecientos noventa
mil novecientos noventa y uno
mil novecientos noventa y dos
mil novecientos noventa y tres
mil novecientos noventa y cuatro
mil novecientos noventa y cinco
Lugar de nacimiento: ____________________________________________________
Mexico
Capital: Ciudad de México
stamp / sello
On this map of North
America, can you…
 trace the borders of the
Estados Unidos?
 Draw a círculo around
Centroamérica?
 draw an óvalo around
las islas del Mar
Caribe?
 draw a leaf on
Canada?
 draw a boat on the Mar
Pacífico?
 draw a fish –un pez-in the Mar Atlántico?
 Draw the letter “X” in
the Golfo de México?
Colorea la bandera de México.
verde
blanco
rojo
Did you know…?
 …that Mexico shares a border that is almost 2,000 miles long with the United States? Look
at the border on a map. Think about what it might mean for two countries –one relatively
rich, one relatively poor—to share such a long border.
 …that Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California all used to
belong to Mexico? The United States took control of these vast territories after the U.S.Mexican War in the 1840s.
 …that 20% --or one out of five—of the fruits and vegetables we eat in the winter in the
United States comes from Mexico?
 …that 66% --or two out of three—of the Hispanic or Latino people in the United States are
of Mexican origin?
 …that Mexicans are the fastest growing group of latino immigrants to New York City?
People from Puerto Rico make up the largest group; people from the República Dominicana
make up the second largest group.
Special Assignment: Scavenger hunt
As you follow your daily routines –in supermarkets, on the street, in your reading, on television, etc.,-be on the lookout for these Mexican things that have become part of New York and US culture. When
you see one of these things –or a picture of one of these things-- check it off on the checklist below.
Why do you think there is such a Mexican presence in the United States and in New York?
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la bandera mexicana
art by one of the many great Mexican artists: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente
Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, etc.
books by one of the great Mexican authors: Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, etc.
celebrities from Mexico: Salma Hayek (actress); Luis Miguel (popular singer); Plácido
Domingo (this great opera singer was born in Spain but lived for many years in Mexico);
Fernando Valenzuela; Vinny Castilla (baseball players).
Mexican customs: la piñata, el sombrero, los mariachis, etc.
Mexican “fast food”; el taco, los nachos, la salsa; las fajitas;
Mexican produce: el chile, el aguacate; la jícama, el tomatillo
Restaurantes mexicanos: list the ones you see in your neighborhood:
1.
2.
Use the top map to place and label the following cities and towns on the
bottom map: Oaxaca; Matamoros; Puebla; Chiapas; Mérida; Chihuahua.
Use the scale on the top map to estimate the distances between:
Nogales and Tuxtla Gutiérrez
______ miles; ________kilometers
Tampico and Puerto Vallarta
Veracruz and Acapulco
Panamá
Capital: Ciudad de Panamá
1
sello/ stamp
2
9
8
7
3
6
4
5
The dotted line traces the trip of the great modern-day explorer Andrés Carrasco, who took
his sailboat from the Mar Caribe, along the coast of Centroamérica, through the Canal de
Panamá, and up the costa Pacífica of Centroamérica. He had to stop along the way for food
and water. List the countries he entered on the trip.
1._________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________
3._________________________________________________________
4._________________________________________________________
5._________________________________________________________
6._________________________________________________________
7._________________________________________________________
8._________________________________________________________
9._________________________________________________________
Colorea la bandera de Panamá.
rojo
azul
blanco
blanco
azul
rojo
Special Assignment.
Read one of these non-fiction books. List below the three facts that struck you the most.
Fernando Rangel Mann, The Panama Canal: Wonders of the World.
Susan Hassig, Panama: Cultures of the World.
Fact 1.____________________________________________________________
Fact 2.____________________________________________________________
Fact 3.____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
The Panama Canal
Adapted from Time for Kids, December 10, 1999. Vol. 5, No. 11.
Boom! Crunch! From 1904 to 1914, sounds of blasting and digging echoed in
Panama’s rain forests and mountains. Thousands of workers fought heat, flood
and disease. Their job: to build a passage across narrow Panama that would link
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Before the canal was built, ships going from New
York to California would have to travel all the way around the tip of South
America. The canal cut as much as three weeks and 9,000 miles off that journey.
“This is one of the great works of the world,” said President Theodore Roosevelt
when he visited Panama in 1906. That visit was the first trip by a U.S. President
to a foreign country while in office.
The canal is 50 miles long and runs from northwest to southeast. It cost $387
million to build and was one of the most important projects in U.S. history. It
involved building what was then the largest dam and largest human-made lake in
the world..
Imagine you are President Theodore Roosevelt visiting the Panama Canal in
1906, and you have to deliver a brief speech. What would you say?
1.
bottom map: Garachine; Almirante; Los Pozos; Panama; El Porvenir.
2.
Portobelo and La Chorrera
Puerto Obaldía and La Concepción
Soná and Bocas del Toro
Costa Rica
Capital = San José
sello/ stamp
Mar Caribe
Mar Pacífico
País
Belice
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
México
Nicaragua
Panamá
Población
250,000
3,594,000
5,859,000
12,336,000
5,901,000
99,734,000
4,952,000
2, 809,000
Study the chart of population in Central America. Then color the map
according to the following key:
Menos de 1,000,000 de habitantes = rojo
1,000,000 – 3,000,000 de habitantes = amarillo
3,000,000 – 5,000,000 de habitantes = verde
5,000,000 – 7,000,000 de habitantes = anaranjado
7,000,000- 15,000,000 de habitantes = café
Más de 15,000,000 de habitantes = violeta
Colorea la bandera de Costa Rica.
azul
blanco
rojo
blanco
azul
Special Assignment: Read one of these two books. Would you recommend it to
a friend? Explain why you would or wouldn’t recommend it below.
Aileen Kilgon Henderson, The Monkey Thief.
M. Rothman, The Forest in the Clouds.
1.
bottom map: San José; Moravia; Cañas; San Isidro; Buenos Aires; Lepanto.
2.
Filadelfia and Golfito
Puerto Limón and Puerto Quepos
Los Chiles and Ciudad Cortés
El Salvador
Capital: San Salvador
sello/ stamp
On this map of Central America,
can you…
 …label the countries that share a
border with El Salvador?
 …label el Mar Pacífico?
Colorea la bandera de El Salvador
azul
blanco
azul
Special Assigment: Read the book by Paul Otteson, Kids Who Walk
on Volcanoes. Then make two lists: one list of things that you and
your friends in the United States have in common with the children
described in the book; another list of differences between you and the
kids who live near the volcanoes of Central America.
Similarities:
Differences:
1.
bottom map: San Miguel; Armenia; San Salvador; Nueva Concepción; Santa
Ana.
2.
La Union and Ahuachapán
Metapán and El Rosario
Usulután and Chalatenango
HONDURAS
Capital = Tegucigalpa
stamp/ sello
On this map of
Centroamérica, can you…
 …label the countries that
share a border with
Honduras?
 …label the seas on which
Honduras has a coast?
A. Colorea el mapa de Centroamérica según esta clave
Color the map of Central America according to this key:
Panamá
Costa Rica
Belice
Guatemala
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Honduras
Colorea la bandera de Honduras.
Nota: Las estrellas son azules.
verde
anaranjado
café
rojo
violeta
amarillo
rosado
On August 21, 1823, a blue-white-blue flag was adopted by the five countries that formed the
United Provinces of Central America, which included Honduras. The five stars on the flag
represent the five countries of that union.
azul
blanco
azul
These are some important products for the economy of Honduras.
Can you translate them into English? Use a dictionary, or ask a
Spanish speaker for help.
Español
el azúcar
Inglés
______________________
el café
______________________
la madera
______________________
los plátanos
______________________
la ropa
______________________
la carne
______________________
1.
bottom map: Dulce Nombre de Culmí; Gracias; El Progreso; Tegucigalpa.
2.
Puerto Lempira and Santa Rosa de Copán ______ miles; ________kilometers
La Ceiba and San Lorenzo
El Paraíso and Nueva Arcadia
Belice
Capital = Belmopan
sello/ stamp
Mar Caribe
Mar Pacífico
Colorea la bandera de Belice.
rojo
azul
rojo
¿Sabías…? Did you know…?
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…that the image in the circle at the center of Belize’s flag
represents two workers in front of a mahogany tree? The
Latin words on the scroll at their feet say “Sub Umbra
Floreo” which means “I flourish in the shade.”
… that Belize was once known as British Honduras until its
independence from Great Britain in 1981?
…that English is the official language of Belize? Other
important languages in the country are Spanish, Mayan,
Garifuna (Carib) and Creole.
…that the country is slightly smaller than the state of
Massachusetts?
…that tourism is the most important source of income for
this country?
…that Belize is the only country in Central America without
a coastline on the Pacific Ocean?
1.
bottom map: Orange Walk; Belmopan; Dangriga; Monkey River Town.
2.
San Ignacio and Mullins River
Corozal and Punta Gorda
Neustadt and Belize City
Nicaragua
Capital: Managua
sello/ stamp
Colorea la bandera de Nicaragua.
azul
blanco
azul
norte
noroeste
noreste
oeste
este
suroeste
sureste
sur
La brújula; la rosa de los vientos
Use the compass rose and the map of Nicaragua to tell Arturo in which direction he needs to
go to get from one place to another.
de Bluefields a Santa Marta __________________________________
de Puerto Cabezas a Managua _________________________________
de Somotillo a Prinzapolka ____________________________________
de Ocatal a Punta Gorda ______________________________________
de Managua a Granada _______________________________________
1.
bottom map: Santa Marta; El Sauce; Boaco; Managua; Rama; Corinto. .
2.
Waspam and San Carlos
Karawala and Somotillo
Rivas and Ocotal
Guatemala
Capital: Ciudad de Guatemala
sello/ stamp
Colorea la bandera de Guatemala.
Note: The official flag has a symbol in the center. It shows a green and red quetzal, the
national bird of Guatemala. In front of the bird is a piece of paper that says “Libertad, quince
de septiembre, 1821. That is the date of Guatemala’s independence from Spain.
azul
blanco
azul
This chart lists the size (the area or extensión in Spanish) of the countries (in square miles
or millas cuadradas), and their populations ( población in Spanish). Study the chart, then
list the countries in size order (from smallest to largest) in terms of extensión and in terms of
población.
País
Extensión
Población
Belice
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
México
Nicaragua
Panamá
8,867 millas cuadradas
Area (size order; smaller to larger)
248,000 habitantes
3,594,000 habitantes
Población (menor a mayor)
Population (size order, smaller to larger)
1.____________________________
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2.____________________________
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3.____________________________
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4.____________________________
___________________________________
5.____________________________
___________________________________
6.____________________________
___________________________________
7.____________________________
___________________________________
8.____________________________
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9.____________________________
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Extensión (menor a mayor)
Especulemos: Let’s speculate
Notice that the two lists you just made are not exactly the same. What kinds of conclusions
might we draw from the fact that they are not the same.
If you are interested in learning more about
Guatemala, check out these books:
Michael Dahl, Guatemala: Countries of the World. 1998
Tricia Haynes, Guatemala: Major World Nations. 1999.
Elma Schemenauer, Guatemala: Faces and Places. 1999.
1.
bottom map: Flores; Dolores; Chiquimulitta; Sololá; Jalapa; Huehuetenango.
2.
Livingston and San Jose
Puerto Barrios and Pueblo Nuevo Tiquisate ______ miles; ________kilometers
Flores and Iztapa

México y Centroamérica

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