Beautiful Senoritas Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Compare to Today

Dolores Prida wrote Beautiful Senoritas in 1977 as a reaction to the gender inequalities she witnessed in Latin America during that time. What gender inequalities exist today? What has changed in 30 years? Write a brief essay discussing these differences.

2. Music Day

Students should research the different styles of Latin music presented in the play and bring to class an example of one each to be presented. Can be combined with "Dance Day."

3. Dance Day

Students should...
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