Crossing Spaces
About the film docuseries:
Three Micronesian women navigate the challenges of building new lives as immigrants to Hawaiʻi and pursuing higher education. The docuseries provides a rare look into their lives, as they simultaneously balance work and college, and maintain strong, intimate connections to their Pacific Island homes some 3,000 miles away.
Lesson Plans by Local Educators
Ramona Duenas, middle school teacher at Luis P. Untalan Middle School on Guam.
Personal Narrative Essay
Subject: Language Arts | Grade: 6-8th Grade
This lesson plan will ask students to write personal narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques. Each student will create a comic strip as a visual component, paying special attention to dialogue, word bubbles, characters, setting, and captions.
PJ Sablan, middle school teacher at F.B. Leon Guerrero Middle School on Guam
Comparing and Contrasting Gender Roles in the Family and Culture
Subject: Language Arts | Grade: 6-8th Grade
This lesson plan will ask students to analyze and examine gender roles in their families and cultures. Students will create Venn diagrams to compare and contrast what it is like to be a girl or boy, illustrate similarities and differences in gender roles, and highlight experiences and observations.
Theresa Ann Muna, middle school teacher at Benavente Middle School on Guam
What Does Migration Mean?
Subject: CHamoru | Grade: 6th Grade
This lesson plan will ask students to describe aspects of culture and what migration and crossing spaces means to them. Students will take part in a “post-it” activity to highlight the similarities and differences between the different groups and celebrate the variety of cultures.
Marlou G. Badajos, an elementary teacher at Maria A. Ulloa Elementary on Guam
Micronesia: Understanding Its People and Culture
Subject: Social Studies | Grade: 4th Grade
This lesson plan will help students to recognize the cultural diversity found on Guam. Students will create “My Family Heritage” posters and draw their thoughts about the film and aspects of community, belonging, and inafa’maolek (the Chamorro word for reconciliation).