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Day One (08/21/17) Enjoy the solar eclipse! Day Two (08/22/17) Students will continue their study and discussion of cultural identity and how it impacts writing by reading an excerpt from Indian author Santha Rama Rau's memoir "By Any Other Name" starting on pg. 43 of their SpringBoard text. Students should annotate, looking for cultural elements that reveal a sense of the author's cultural identity. Learn more about what a memoir is HERE. After reading the text, students will complete questions #1-8 on pgs. 48-49 of the SpringBoard text. Day Three (08/23/17) Based on class discussion of the excerpt "By Any Other Name" and the experience of some immigrants at Ellis Island, students will complete an interactive tour of Ellis Island at Scholastic. For the tour, click HERE. Students should complete the following Web Quest as they tour Ellis Island - click HERE. Web Quests are due at the end of class, or must be finished for homework and turned in at the beginning of class on Thursday. Day Four (08/24/2017) After our virtual tour and Ellis Island WebQuest, students will begin the period by playing Immigration Survivor. The game presents different scenarios of new immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s at the peak of Ellis Island traffic. Students will guess whether immigrants are cleared for entrance into America, or deported due to their circumstances. To see the game, click HERE. After the Immigration Survivor game, students will read an excerpt from the cultural essay "Where Worlds Collide" by Pico Iyer (access HERE) about his experience living in culturally diverse southern California. Students will annotate, looking for allusions. To learn more about the literary device allusion, click HERE. When finished reading, students should answer questions 1-6 on pg. 65 of their SpringBoard text. Day Five (08/25/2017) Students will begin the class with 20 minutes of independent reading. For independent reading students may bring their own reading materials or select something from the class library. After quiet independent reading, students may work in groups if they need to complete the film study from last week for Mona Lisa Smile. When finished, we will begin a new film study, viewing the 2015 movie Brooklyn, rated PG13. Learn more about this Oscar-nominated film HERE. Brooklyn is based on the novel of the same name, by Irish author Colm Tóibín and tells the story of Irish immigrant Eilis Lacey to New York in the 1950s. Following yesterday's reading of When Worlds Collide by Pico Iyer, students will create a written response describing how Brooklyn, like Worlds Collide, juxtaposes the idea of the American Dream with the reality that new immigrants find. For this assignment, click HERE.
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