AATF Convention San Diego 2024

In this interactive presentation, I will discuss a new unit I designed on Haiti for an intermediate French class. Inspired by Cécile Accilien, a Haitian scholar, and the socially engaged Haitian musicians, Boukman Eksperyans, I created a student-centered unit on Haiti’s remarkable story of resistance and revolution. Students were able to make connections between the legacy of colonialism and slavery, and the persistent problems of racism in the U.S. and France, while developing listening, reading, writing and comprehension skills.