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“Identity”

“Identity”. Free Write : What Inferences can you make of this passage?.

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“Identity”

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  1. “Identity”

  2. Free Write : What Inferences can you make of this passage? • I came home yesterday afternoon exhausted. This one student, brilliant yet perplexed, challenged every fiber of my intellect. The conversation, like a marathon, just kept going. At home I collapsed into a coma. What felt like five minutes later, my wife woke me and said, “It’s dinner time.”

  3. Theme (noun) • Main ideas: • Lesson/moral • Usually implicit/inferred • Can be expressed in at least one complete sentence • Different from subject • Thematic (adjective)

  4. Inference (noun) • Main ideas: • Make a guess • Make an observation • Use evidence to support guess • To infer (verb)

  5. Literary inference (noun) • Main ideas: • Make a guess • Make an observation • Use evidence to support guess • From the text • From character’s speech, actions, thoughts, and appearance • From the tone • Word choice/diction and details • From the theme

  6. Figurative language (noun) • Main ideas: • Word or phrase • Describes one thing in terms of another • Not to be taken literally • Usually involves imaginative comparison of two unlike things • Simile, metaphor, personification • Also called “figure(s) of speech” • Simile: Figurative Language is like _____________

  7. Reading “Geraldo No Last Name” (559) • Keep interactive reading notes (before, during, after) • 1. What inferences can you make about Geraldo? • 2. How would you describe Cisneros’s word choice/diction? (Look at specific vocabulary. Slang? Contractions? Like Shakespeare (archaic)? Need a dictionary to read (difficult language/elevated)?) • What is Cisneros’s tone? (Not Marin’s tone, the author’s…what is her attitude toward this subject?) • Infer as to what you believe is the theme of this short story.

  8. Essential Questions: How Does Gerardo, No Last Name connect to our essential questions? • 1.   What is identity? • 2.   Do individuals create culture or does culture create individuals? • 3.   How is our sense of who we are determined by who came before us? How does knowledge of history limit or  broaden our potential? • 4.   What factors could cause individual or group identity to change or remain the same? (for example, from generation to generation?)

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