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The Art of the Puerto Rican People Lesson Plan

The Art of the Puerto Rican People Lesson Plan

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The Art of the Puerto Rican People

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Students study Taino Art and identify their crafts and stone carvings. They read the life of Campeche as presented and discuss with their teacher the economic and political situation of Puerto Rico in the eighteenth century and how life may have been then.

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7th - 12th

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