"¡Pleibol!”: Close Looking to Explore One Family’s Story of Latino Baseball
"¡Pleibol!”: Close Looking to Explore One Family’s Story of Latino Baseball
This teaching collection helps students to look closely and think critically by using three Thinking Routines to explore the cultural relevance of one family's baseball-related objects from an exhibition at the National Museum of American History, "¡Pleibol!: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues." The exhibition seeks to document the history of Latino culture through the lens of baseball, and explores baseball not only as a pastime close to the hearts of many people in many communities, but also for Latinos as a place to advocate for rights and social justice.
Finally, the prompts aid students in looking closely at a personal object of their choice and teasing out the story it tells.
Included here are the objects themselves, a bilingual video with curator Margaret Salazar-Porzio, three suggested Thinking Routines - "See, Think, Wonder," "The 3 Y's," and "Picture Writing" - from Harvard's Project Zero Artful Thinking and Global Thinking materials, and supporting digital content about the exhibition.
For use in Social Studies, Spanish, English, and American History classes
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