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What does the homework look like in your class?
I make them collect stories. I have students doing restaurant reviews and taco tours in the area that is now known as “Mexington,” a.k.a. the barrio of Lexington. I make my students post on Instagram and use hashtags as a form of archiving. I also make them watch MUNCHIES episodes. I make my students read their restaurant reviews out loud, too. I also made my students read Pete Well’s recent restaurant review of Señor Frog’s for The New York Times.

With all of these assignments, my students are practicing different storytelling techniques and forms of collecting data. At the very end of the course, my students will be generators of knowledge, have a portfolio full of multimedia food journalism, and they will be over the fajita stage of Mexican food.