Friday, February 1, 2013

Cuba

I am doing a project for my ESL grad school, and I needed to do some research for the country Cuba. I thought I would post a little information on here in case people wanted to comment about their own culture or add to this!

Cuba culture: Demographics- recent population estimates from 11.06 million to 11.17 million
- Mixed population from African and European decent
Linguistic Affiliation: Nearly all Cubans speak Spanish exclusively, similar to other Hispanic Caribbean islands, rhythmic speaking and hand gestures are distinctly Cuban.
Symbolism: three really important symbols in culture; National Anthem, National flag, the flag of the 26th July movement.

Our school offers a website for each teacher in the district, I could place this information about this culture and other cultures on my web page for teachers and others in our community to read. I can also offer up links to web pages that have information about different cultures (for example I used www.everythingculture.com to find out about Cuba). I think a fun way to present this to staff would be to have the students create a project on different cultures and have them present the different information each the teachers, they can even open it up to the community. Then we can discuss way to make sure that each student is being taught to their best ability.