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Intimacy is not created by a particular language; it is created by intimates.

Intimacy is not created by a particular language; it is created by intimates. Richard Rodriguez. Free Write. If they were to make a movie about your life so far, what would be the title? Who would play you? What kind of movie would it be? Why?. Few Words You Need to Know.

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Intimacy is not created by a particular language; it is created by intimates.

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  1. Intimacy is not created by a particular language; it is created by intimates. Richard Rodriguez

  2. Free Write • If they were to make a movie about your life so far, what would be the title? • Who would play you? • What kind of movie would it be? • Why?

  3. Few Words You Need to Know • Memoir - biographical or historical account • Aria – opera song

  4. Which familial relation do you find most abject? Why? • If you were a Bard, what would your subject matter be about? • Describe one puerile action you have witnessed on campus.

  5. New Words • Abase • Judicious • Myopic • Redoubtable • Verbose • Wane NEW RWE

  6. Reading Quiz • What does language represent for a young Rodriguez?

  7. Syntax • Refers to the order of words in a sentence • Syntax differs among language and writers • There is more than one proper way to say something. • Something can be said many different ways properly. Only difference is syntax

  8. Syntax between Languages • I have a blackcat. • Yotengo un gatonegro.

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  10. Discuss • If you were to do a timed write on strategies used in “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” what would your thesis be? • Write one NOW

  11. Things you may have considered: • The nuns visiting his home – juxtaposition • Creation of silence and border with language • Guilt of not speaking Spanish at home • Trouble of translation • Intimacy

  12. Close Reading • Page 330 • Read this passage as if it were a Timed Write passage • 10 minutes • ANNOTATE

  13. Individual Sentence Break Down • At one point his words slid together to form one word – sounds as confused as the threads of blue and green oil in the puddle next to my shoes.

  14. At one point his words slid together to form one word – sounds as confused as the threads of blue and green oil in the puddle next to my shoes. Colliding of 2 worlds Mixing of two separate cultures? Blue collar, fuel, slippery, does not mix well with other liquids Fibers that connect

  15. Thesis • By using metaphors of both connection and opposition, Rodriguez creates an image of a conflicted childhood in which the search for identity is as slippery as spilled oil.

  16. Next One • But then there was Spanish. Espanol: my family’s language. Espanol: the language that seemed to me a private language.

  17. But then there was Spanish. Espanol: my family’s language. Espanol: the language that seemed to me a private language. Repetition: anaphora Italics Series of sentence fragments

  18. Thesis Through his fragmented syntax and use of italics, Rodriguez separates Spanish as a mystic language, one that creates a safe realm for him away from the stresses of a new school and culture.

  19. Thesis • Rodriguez uses his own childhood experiences to create his argument against bilingual education. • Thesis grade 3/4

  20. Essay Assignment • 3 part project • Read over expectations together

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