Boulder County’s Latino Migrant Housing: 1920s-1960s

In this lesson students will examine Boulder Latino migrant housing as portrayed in three different primary sources. In this process, students will closely read an oral history, a typed interview, and an oral interview for details related to this housing. Details and specific word choices related to tone and mood will be captured in a note catcher. Finally, students will be asked to choose between two topics and construct an evidenced-based essay.

Created By: Patty Hagan, SVVSD Office of Professional Development

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Labor Unions and Strikes: The Labor Movement & Migrant Workers in Boulder County & Colorado

In this lesson students will read primary and secondary resources regarding the struggles of Migrant Workers in Boulder, CO (1910-1932) and will compare/contrast the struggles with those presented in the film “Salt of the Earth” (1954), based on the strike at the Empire Zinc Company mine in New Mexico (1951).

Created By: Kristen Klein 

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