8th Grade Hispanic Heritage Month Centers

Students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and Hispanic Heritage month-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!

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What's Included

• A PowerPoint with 1 unique board
• 1 editable Roll a Story Board
• A QR code on the story board that leads to digital dice (so no dice needed, just devices!)
• Vocabulary page
• Writing page

Story Elements

• Setting (examples: Día de los Muertos, time-traveling taco truck, fiesta that won’t ever end)

• Protagonists (examples: skeleton who aspires to join the living, Mayan stuck in modern times, famous lucha libre champion)

• Conflict (examples: is is captured by, is cursed by, is stalked by)

• Antagonists (examples: El Chupacabra, alien who visits earth on Dia De los Muertos, soccer player who thinks they’re famous)

• Story Elements (examples: talking doll, scraping noises on a window, radioactive spider)

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Don't know what to do for the upcoming Heritage Month? Not sure of an activity for African American Heritage Month? Ready for Women's History Month? And what about all those Awareness Months? Don't worry! I've got you covered! Just download this Brainstorming Activity for Heritage Months, History Months, and Awareness Months resource!

Using a simple A-B-C format for brainstorming, students complete a worksheet with the names of any of the people associated with the month. An easy-peasy way to introduce students to the wide variety of people who make these months special!

Examples for Women's History Month:

A - Amelia Earhart (this name could also be used for the letter "E")

B - Bessie Coleman

C - Coco Chanel

Etc!

How to Use This Resource:

• To pre-teach a lesson on an upcoming Heritage Month
• Extra credit
• Research practice
• Sub-plans
• & More!

What's Included?

• A-B-C style brainstorming sheets - 3 different handouts with various-sized spaces in which students can write their answers.
• A link to a ‘forced copy’ in Google Docs. The instruction section in the Google Doc version is editable. Text boxes are ready to go!

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• Hispanic-Heritage-Month-TRIVIA-Four-Corners-and-2-Other-Games
• BIOGRAPHY-Hispanic-Heritage-Month-Choice-Board-Research
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• Ramadan WebQuest
• Arab American Heritage Activity WebQuest
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Activity WEBQUEST
• Juneteenth Activity
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