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Lesson Plan: Guam History Board Game 4
Print version of this lesson plan or all five. Testing our game design (Part 4 of 5) Subjects Social Studies, History, Art Grade-level Middle School, 6-8High School, 9-12 Time required 50 minutes Materials required None Related background reading None Related documents None Related links Guampedia Lesson Plan Description With this lesson students will test their […]
Hilitai: Monitor Lizard
The hilitai or monitor lizard (Varanus tsukamotoi) was introduced to the island before European contact in the 1500’s. It is black or dark green with yellow or white spots covering its body.
Utak: Itak
The utak or itak (Phaethon lepturu) is a bird Chamorros/CHamorus believe plays a role as providing an omen of life and death. The bird is native to the Caroline islands which are south of the Marianas.
Ninana: Motherhood
A precise understanding of Chamorro/CHamoru concepts or designations requires a fundamental understanding of the Chamorro worldview, inafa’maolek, which is a social practice of interdependence and cooperation or of “being kind and good to one another.”
Fiestas
In the long ago past, there were no fiestas. What was practiced were gatherings of clans to celebrate special events such as harvesting of a good crop, clan contests, special village events to craft a canoe, a hut building, gupot åtof or just congregating to chant and dance, tell stories and legends, to give genealogy lessons, or just getting together to socialize and have fun.
Monsignor Oscar Calvo
CHamoru patriot priest. On 10 January 1942, all foreign Catholic missionaries in Guam were sent by the Japanese occupying forces to prisoner of war camps in Japan.
Robert O’Brien: US Prisoner of War
Robert O’Brien (1908 – 1988), born in New York, came to Guam in the 1930s with the US Navy. He married Marie Santos Inouye, a woman of CHamoru and Japanese descent, and they had four children, Patricia, Joseph, Henry and Robert. He participated in the short-lived defense of Guam and became a prisoner of war. O’Brien survived four years in a prisoner of war camp in Zentsuji, Japan.
Muslim Association of Guam
Creating understanding and harmony. The Muslim Association of Guam was founded in 1990 to meet the needs of the growing Muslim community in Guam, although membership has varied over the years from a high of more than 100 to the current total of about 50.
Piti
The village name is probably derived from the CHamoru word puti, which means to hurt or ache.
WWII: Religious Life during the Japanese Occupation
From a religious perspective, World War II in Guam, or I Tiempon Chapoñes as Chamorros/CHamorus referred to it, was traumatic for a number of reasons. The Japanese invasion and occupation of the island was the most jarring and traumatic event in recent Guam history.