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Breaking Through

Resources to Enrich Your Understanding of Breaking Through

1. To find out more about the author of Breaking Through, Francisco Jimenez, go to this Santa Clara University website to read about his life.
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/frjim.html

2. NOW with Bill Moyers: On the Border
For extensive links to information regarding migrant labor, visit this excellent site hosted by PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrants.html

3. Escuela: Virtual Journey
Travel with the Luis family on their seasonal migration from Texas to California. This PBS video program may be difficult to access without the right plug-ins.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2002/escuela/webisode_window.html

4. Spanish for Cooking
A useful list of Spanish vocabulary used in cooking and in naming popular dishes.
http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/sp_terms.html

5. The Music and Meaning of Mexican Corridos
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3743/

6. The Declaration of Independence
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm

7. The Swallows of San Juan Capistrano
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/swallows1.html
 Updated Friday, May 9, 2008 at 12:04:26 PM by MaryAnne Ifft - ifftmaryanne@fhda.edu
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