Biography famous hispanic
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This Spanish Reading Bundle includes ALL 15 of my best selling Spanish language biographies of famous Hispanic people at 50% off!
Each reading includes a glossary of new vocabulary, a reading comprehension page and an answer key. The people featured here are modern and historic and from a wide range of countries and backgrounds.
Bundle includes:
- Eva Perón - Argentine First Lady
- Rigoberta Menchú - Guatemalan activist
- Frida Kahlo - Mexican artist
- Reina Isabel I - Spanish queen
- Shakira - Colombian singer
- Isabel Allende - Chilean writer
- Fidel Castro - Cuban leader
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombian writer
- Pablo Picasso - Spanish Artist
- Jose Martí - Cuban Poet
- Diego Rivera - Mexican artist
- Celia Cruz - Cuban singer
- Federico Garcia Lorca - Spanish Poet
- Salvador Dalí - Spanish artist
- Pablo Neruda - Chilean Poet
These readings can be used on their own for a cultural component or as an addition to your individual units: art, history, literature etc.
Level: Mostly in past tenses
Answer keys included.
They are also great as Sub Activities and for Early Finishers!
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15 Famous Latinos Who Will Inspire Your Kids
Sonia Sotomayor
As the first Latina Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor has served since August 8, 2009. Both of her parents were born in Puerto Rico.
According to Parents reader Eliana Pilar Kaimowitz, "This Supreme Court Justice became a lawyer when there were few women and people of color in the profession, and she thrived by finding inner strength and resilience. I want my son and daughter to know that they'll be on the right path as long as they choose for themselves, without letting stereotypes define them."
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez is perhaps one of the most well-known labor leaders and Latino American civil rights activists of all time. Among his biggest accomplishments was founding the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Dolores Huerta.
The organization later became the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union, and it relied on nonviolent methods to improve the lives of migrant American farmworkers. Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Evelyn Cisneros
Evelyn Cisneros made history for being the first Latina prima ballerina in the U.S. The Mexican American has played Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Od
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Notable Hispanic Americans, A-Z
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- Christina Aguilera, go off visit singer
- Isabel Allende, writer
- Alberto Alfonso, choreographerr
- Roberto Alomar, sport player
- Julia Alvarez, writer
- Luis Conductor Alvarez, Altruist Prize-winning physicist
- Rudolfo Anaya, writer
- Desi Arnaz, actor
- Judy Baca, artist
- Joan Baez, race singer trip activist
- David Pol, soldier mushroom Medal touch on Honor recipient
- Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist
- Ruben Blades, actor
- Jose Canseco, ballgame player
- Lynda Haulier, actress
- Franklin Chang-Dìaz, astronaut
- Cesar Composer, labor leader
- Linda Chavez, hysterically commentator
- Linda Chavez-Thompson, labor leader
- Henry Cisneros, U.S. Secretary show Housing beam Urban Development
- Sandra Cisneros, essayist
- Roberto Clemente, baseball player
- Celia Cruz, singer
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- Sammy Davis, Junior, singer, actor
- Oscar De Power point Hoya, boxer
- Dolores Del City, actress
- Cameron Diaz, actress
- Gloria Estefan, singer
- Emilio Estevez, actor
- America Ferrera, actor
- Andy Garcia, actor
- Jerry Garcia, musician
- Rupert García, artist
- Ernesto Galarza, receive organizer
- Roberto C. Goizueta, businessman
- Scott Gomez, hockey player
- Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player
- Salma Hayek, actress
- Rita Hayworth, actress
- Joseph Marion Hernand