Upon examining the resources that Dr. Coats provided, I found some particularly useful. I find that there are many ways to incorporate this class into my language arts curriculum, but harder to incorporate it into my Spanish curriculum so I was very happy to find this resource. On his link entitled "Buddhism occurs across Asia" there is "An Introduction to Buddhism" which is told in several different languages including Spanish. I loved this resource for a variety of reasons. First, the speaker speaks very slowly so even my students in Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 should be able to understand. Second, the same speech is also provided in English so we cold do a simultaneous translation activity. We can even have a discussion about why the translator decided to make some structural grammatical changes instead of translating the text word for word. Lastly, the cross-curricular connections will get students more excited. When they hear ties between what they are learning in Spanish to what they are learning in social studies, they will gain much more motivation than they would if I had incorporated a random text.
