This Unit of Practice is designed to enhance student knowledge of world around them.  It specifically focuses on
the Hispanic World . The flags seen above, belong to countries all over the world, and some U.S. territories that were once part of the Golden Age of the Spanish Empire.  Throughout the centuries, Spain's hold on these nations and territories came to an end as waves of nationalist fervor fed their fires of independence.  Today, these nations form a cultural, political and economically diverse group of nations whose people we call Hispanics .

The objective of this unit is to develop an understanding that each " Hispanic" nation is unique in culture,
politics and economics as well as location, geography and climate.  Their source of unity is founded in
a common "Spanish" language.

Unit of Practice created by:
Tony F. Ruiz, Thoreau Demonstration Academy
Tulsa Public Schools, 2001
For the EIGHTH Floor Telecommunications Academy