Organize Your Thinking
Gathering and organizing specific details can help you to think about your writing subject and create a clearer, more effective composition. This exercise will help you to plan your final writing assignment about diversity within Latino American culture—either discussing how it enriches our society or comparing it to your own culture.
Use the first column of the following chart to brainstorm specific details about diversity within Latino food, music, dance, and art. Then use the second column to consider how each example of diversity enriches our society. In the third column, compare details of Latino culture noted in column one to those of your own culture.
Before you begin, below is a sample response for Latino art and some of its contributions to society. The third column considers the art of ancient Greek culture.
| Examples of Latino cultural diversity | How diversity within Latino culture enriches society | Comparing with ancient Greek culture |
| Art | Chavez: - Caribbean nature (leaves, flowers, & moon)
- earthy colors (blues, greens, browns)
- vibrant pinks, organges
- shirtless figure, head bowed
- word "Forgiveness" (suggests despair & prayer of humanity)
Guernica by Picasso: - black, white, & gray
- despairing figures (mother & dead child, head of tortured horse)
- objects (broken sword & lightbulb)
| Chavez's paintings: - capture natural beauty of Puerto Rican rainforests
- reveal beauty & sacredness of nature & humanity
- freed black artists to show in galleries & museums
- helpfed provide state support for all art works in CT
Picasso's stark mural: - expresses horror & suffering of war for Spanish people of Guernica
- reminds all of war's devastating effects on innocent victims
| Early Greek sculpture: - strength & beauty
- heroes/goddesses
Later works: - black, red, white pottery paintings of humans
- public panel/wall paintings
- floor mosaics
- hunters/mythology figures
- religious figures
High standards / examples: - Influenced other cultures
- Continue to inspire artists today
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