Russell
Johnson
From the Buena Vista Social Club to Orishas
From the Buena
Vista Social Club to Orishas
a lesson of Cuba and its’ musical traditions
see
lyrics to '537 Club Orishas'
visit
the Buena Vista Social Club website
visit
the Orishas website
Day 1
Students
are divided into 6 groups and asked to use the internet to
research the following five topics. Use the computer lab 40 minutes for
students to research.
1 History
of Cuba – pre-Castro revolution
2 History of Cuba – post-revolution
3 Che Guevara
4 Fidel Castro
5 Cuban Missile Crisis
6 Musical Traditions of Cuba
Some useful
websites are:
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/caribbean/cuba/
www.radiohc.org/
www.afrocubaweb.com/
www.historyofcuba.com/cuba.htm
www.unipr.it/~davide/cuba/home.html
www.cubagov.cu/
www.cubamapa.com/
www.cubalinda.com/
Day 2
Upon returning to class the next day the students regroup and share information with the purpose of creating a 5-10 minute presentation that delivers information to the class. Whiteboards should be made available so students may practice presentation skills. One may go so far as to require students to create a power point presentation. For beginning classes the presentations should be delivered in English. Advanced and Spanish-speakers courses would use Spanish. Students should keep all information printed out for future use. Students should take notes on the presentations as they will be quizzed on the information. An oral quiz may be given or a written quiz may be produced.
Day 3
Show “The
Buena Vista Social Club”
Have students identify things they see in the video that they saw in their
research.
Day 4
Students listen to “537 C.U.B.A. and do the cloze activity with the lyrics.
Divide the
song into sections and students translate a section of the song in groups.
Sections are presented to the class by each group.
Day 5
In Groups
students are asked to create a poster that shows what they
have learned about Cuba.
537 Cuba Orishas Vengo
de donde hay un río Soy
de Cuba, lo que impuso Ahora la distancia queda! Si
de mí lengua estoy viviendo Allá
lejos Vengo
de donde hay un río Estraño
mí tierra querida Me
arrancaré el corazón Vengo
de donde hay un río Vengo
de donde hay un río Cayo
Hueso, San Leopordo Vengo
de donde hay un río Vengo
de donde hay un río Vengo
de donde hay un río Vengo
de donde hay un río |