SUMMARY OF PROJECT:
This project is an attempt to bring the reader closer to understanding art and literature of Cuban origin. Through looking at Cuban-American literature and art we attempt to move away from the age old images that many Americans have of cuba as little more than the regime that makes up its political system.  Art and Literature is a vehicle through which we as a world can come to understand more of Cuba, the Cuban experience both in Cuba and Abroad, and aspects of the culture that make up the small but engaging island nation of Cuba.

Speeches of Fidel Castro

Cuban Music 

STANDARDS in English Language Arts

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Standard 1:   Language for Information and Understanding

Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data,facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply,and transmit information.

Standard 2:   Language for Literary Response and Expression

Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation.

Standard 3:   Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation

Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction

Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.

This Culture Quest can be a great tool for learning a basic understanding of Cuban Music, Film, Speeches by Fidel Castro and Cuban-American Literature

This Culture Quest is an excellent tools for educators in the field of English Language Arts:

• Use in conjunction with the reading of Cuban Author and Text.

• Use in conjunction with the viewing of a Cuban Film.

• Use in conjunction with the study of Cuban Art as a vehicle to Literature.

• Can be used as link to future webquest.
  

• Students can use to as source for research project based on Cuban topic.