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=Argentina =



media type="file" key="la copa mundial de futbol 1ave.mp3" width="240" height="20" **Click to listen to the recording about La Copa Mundial de fútbol of Ms. Staker - Timpview High School.**

Significados posibles de la bandera: [|específicamente los colores, el sol y la Batalla del Paraná] (Podrían ser temas buenas.) [|el sol y tres intrepretaciones de los colores] [|más de lo militar, un poco de los colores y también algunas canciones]

=__Personas famosas/importantes__=

[|“The Father of the Land” José de San Martín]
 * Liberty/Liberation/Independence
 * Determination
 * Leadership

Isabel Perón (presidenta influyente)
 * leadership in challenging times

Jorge Luis Borges
 * possible things suggested by Wikipedia:
 * **Time** (//[|The Secret Miracle]//)
 * **Destiny/Freedom** (//[|The Garden of Forking Paths]//, //[|Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote]//, //[|Theme of the Traitor and the Hero]//)
 * [|"Writing is nothing more than a guided **dream**."]
 * maybe a more [|kid centered] view
 * an [|idea] of how to get the students to connect
 * this could be promising for a read aloud or a simpler leveled reader ([|Cuando los grandes eran pequeños]) (I think it's about him...)
 * "Ultimately all is useful to Borges. No event or personality, however staggering (Hiroshima or Hitler), subdues his **imagination,** which doesn’t mean simply that everything is grist for his mill but that he can look at the most rigidly interpreted facts of history with a fresh eye. In the same way literature for him is never canonized; it is always open to new response. He is interested in possibilities and paradox. . . ." from [|this page]

Julio Cortázar
 * "the quest for identity, the hidden reality behind the everyday lives of common people, and the existential angst" from [|this page] and [|this page]
 * [|cuentos cortos]
 * Rayuela

Ernesto "Che" Guevara
 * ¿Temas posibles ?

[|Otras personas]

=__Lugares__= [|good resource with map] [|lugares interesantes de Argentina] Iguazú Falls =__Música y Baile__=
 * el tango

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