Analyzing Perspectives and Multiple Mediums -

Analyzing Perspectives and Multiple Mediums -

Open Ended

Bell Work: One of the standards we will look at for this unit is "analyze a point of view or cultural experience.." This standard was practiced in the last literary text we read (By Any Other Name). Based on the standard and what you remember from the text, what predictions can you make about the text we will read next?

Standards in this Unit

Standards in this unit

Academic vocabulary

Select the most correct meaning of the following academic terms you will interact with over the course of this unit.

Multiple Choice

"establish the writer's tone" requires you to

• identify a single word that describes the writer's tone in the text.

• examine evidence from the text to to help support the tone of the writer.

• analyze how the writer develops the tone in the text.

• identify ideas presented in the text that develops the tone.

Multiple Choice

"support the writer's tone"

• identify ideas that develop the writer's tone.

• examine how the write's tone is developed through out the text.

• identify a single word that establishes tone

• examine details from the text to provide evidence of the writer's tone.

Multiple Choice

" a phrase that best reflects the author's perspective" requires you to

• identify evidence in the text to determine the writer's views on the topic discussed in the text.

• make an inference about the writer's views on a particular topic discussed in the text.

• analyze how the writer establishes his/her perspective.

• analyze how the theme of the text is connected to he writer's perspective.

Multiple Choice

The speaker's perspective is revealed by

• analyzing how the theme connects to the speaker's perspective.

• analyzing how the writer develops the his/her point of view over the course of the text.

• inferences made based on specific lines in the text.

• inferences made based on idea presented in the text.

Multiple Choice

To determine how a topic is represented in the text you should

• analyze how the writer develops the theme of the text using various text structures.

• determine the purpose of the text.

• analyze how the theme is highlighted in the text.

• make inferences based on the text.

Multiple Choice

To determine how the theme is emphasized in the text is to

• identify ideas presented in the text to determine the theme of the text.

• make inferences based on what the text says explicitly.

• analyze strategies the writer uses to make the theme ore visible to the reader.

• identify details from the text to determine the theme.

"Legal Alien" by Pat Mora

Go to Canvas files and download a copy of the text. You may follow along with the audio-visual reading of the text or you may read silently.

Open Ended

Based on the title of the poem, what predictions did you make out the poem?

Open Ended

What topics or subjects could you identify coming out of each chunk of the poem?

Open Ended

What is the writers' tone in the poem and words in the poem support the tone?

Open Ended

Read lines 5-9 from the poem

"drafting memos in smooth English,

able to order in fluent Spanish

at a Mexican restaurant,

American but hyphenated"

How do the above lines develop a particular perspective or cultural experience?

Multiple Select

What message does the author want to convey to the readers?

Check all that apply.

• Being Mexican- American is unique because of the diverse cultural differeneces.

• Mexican-Americans are not claimed by either culture.

• Mexican-Americans are made to feel conflicted about their cultural identity.

• Mexican-Americans want to be equally accepted by both cultures.

Open Ended

Based on the previous question, what is the theme of the poem?