Narco cultura COMPLETE UNIT: Spanish for heritage speakers

This unit reveals the impact that the narco cultura has made in various regions of Latin América. This entire unit can take up to 7-8 weeks. All readings, articles, videos, and activities are hyperlinked in a Google slides presentation. Simply make a copy of the documents to edit them.

Some of the cultural aspects covered in this unit include: music, religion/beliefs, cinema, initiation traditions, clothing, lifestyle, art, and literature. (some of the content might be explicit, so cover material at your own discretion)

There are 3 formative and 1 summative assessment included in the unit that assess different skills.

1.) Reading with vocabulary + comprehension questions about the narco culture

2.) Song analysis

3.) Readings + videos alongside comprehension questions about narco beliefs/religion (cult)

4.) Students watch a film (hyperlinked in video) and record a podcast where they analyze the film.