 Tips on how to use Hispanic Shortie Pages:
You can either do the entire lesson in Spanish or, read it in Spanish and have your students write or give their responses in English
You might have a student whose parent or parents do no speak English. Encourage kids to share these lessons with their parents. They work on reading skills together as well as learn a thing or two about the Bible.
If you're Spanish is not fluent, let your students teach you a thing or two. Allow the student to lead the Hispanic Bible lesson,
while you follow along in the English version of Life is a Trip.
Unique issues facing Hispanic Youth - According the Urban Institute, Latino/Hispanic youth are more likely to drop out of high school than any other ethnicity. Pregnant Latino/Hispanic teens are the highest risk of dropping out of school. A lack of proficiency in English and a need to work to send money back to family members in their native countries were key reasons cited by researchers for the difference. Another reason might be that their parents came from cultures where formal education wasn't valued the way it is in the U.S. Only 51 percent of Hispanic children have mothers who themselves have finished high school, in comparison to 93 percent of white children.
Teen Mamas - Before their twentieth birthday, an estimated 24 percent of Hispanic young women will have given birth to at least one child, compared with 13 percent of U.S. young women overall.
Poverty - The number of non-Latino White children living in poverty has increased by more than 230,000 since 2000 to reach 4.3 million.
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