Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza Lesson Plan

Seeing and Being Seen: Using Phone Photography to Explore the Coatlicue State

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will gain direct experience of Anzaldúa's Coatlicue State through a series of photography tasks using the cameras on their phones.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1

Structure:

Begin by taking a student volunteer to read the following passage from La herencia de Coatlicue/The Coatlicue State: Enfrentamientos con el alma: “There is another quality to the...