Rain Of Gold Themes

For our Multicultural Curriculum Project, we will be working with the book, Rain of Gold. Over a three-week span we will be working with 9-12 grade high school students, ages raging from 14-18. The book titled, Rain of Gold, written by Victor Villaseñor, tells the story of two different families during the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The author references three generations and their migrations between Mexico and the United States. It represents a detailed account of life in Mexico and California during the early 1900s. The book is based upon many hours of interviews he had with his parents and relatives. It mostly takes place in the Inland Empire; Corona, Hemet, Lake Elsinore and Temecula are among the settings of the 552 page book. Villasenor begins the …show more content…
They want to learn and be part of the main culture of their school. In Rain of Gold, even though Lupe starts school at the American compound, she experiences similar feelings. When her classmate announces to the class that she is poor and doesn’t even live in a house, Lupe feels devastated. In order to fully immerse students into culture, they have to be motivated. In the article titled, “Significance of Instrumental and Integrative Motivation in Second Language Acquisition”, written by Sarwat Sultan and Irshad Hussain, both authors discuss the importance of motivation, and how both imperative and instrumental motivation are vital and central when it comes to fully acquiring a second language (Sultan and Hussain 2010, pg. 145). Intergrative motivation is a language learning motivation first described by R. Gardner and W. Lambert, and it is applied to language learners who are “integratively” motivated to learn the language because they want to get to know the people who speak that language (Sultan and Hussain 2010, pg.