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Students are encouraged to complete an extra credit assignmentv (1 per marking period)
Latino and Latina Biographies
Famous Latin American Bios!
- Choose at least five or six famous Latin American people from the list below (or visit Famous Hispanics in History).
- On the blank side of an index card draw and color a portrait of one famous Latin American person (one person per index card and your portrait needs to be colored).
- On the lined side of each index card write a short biography of each famous Latin American.
- Please include the following information:
- Person's full name.
- Person's place of birth.
- Year of birth and of death (only if the person is dead).
- What did the person do in his or her life?
- What made the person famous?
- What do you think made this person special?
- What events made or changed this person's life?
- Why did you choose this person?
- Please include the following information:
- Evita Peron and Site #2 - Argentinian President
- José Martí - Cuban Writer and Revolutionary
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos - Puerto Rican Patriot, Educator, Sociologist, Philosopher, Essayist, and Novelist
- Carlos Santana - Mexican Musician
- Sammy Sosa - Dominican Republic Baseball Player
- Celia Cruz - Cuban Queen of Salsa
- Frida Kahlo and Site #2- Mexican Artist/Painter
- Diego Rivera - Mexican Artist
- Simón Bolivar and Site #2 - Venezuelan Statesman, Writer, and Revolutionary General
- Cesar Chavez - Mexican Civil Rights Activist
- Sandra Benitez - Puerto Rican-American Author
- Desi Arnaz - Cuban Actor/Musician
- Gabriel García Márquez - Colombian Journalist, Novelist, Writer, and Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
Gabriel Márquez - Antonia Novello - Puerto Rican First Female and First Hispanic Surgeon General of the US!
- Ellen Ochoa and Site #2 - Mexican-American Astronaut
- Luis Leloir - Argentinian Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry
- Julia Alvarez - Dominican Republic Poet
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Site #2 - Cuban member of Congress
- Henry Cisneros - Mexican-American Mayor and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Gloria Estefan and Site #2 - Cuban Musician
- Roberto Clemente Walker and Site #2 - Puerto Rican Athlete and Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Alfonso X "El Sabio" - Spanish King
- Emiliano Zapata - Mexican Statesman
- Pablo Picasso - Spanish Artist
- César Milstein - Argentinian Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
- Sister M Isolina - Puerto Rican Catholic Nun (called the Puerto Rican Mother Teresa)
- Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez and Site #2 - A herione of Mexican Independence
- Pancho Villa - A Mexican revolutionary
- Freddie Prinze, Sr (not Junior) - A Puerto Rican Actor
- Cesar Romero and Site #2 - A Cuban Actor
