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9. How did the information about the artist’s life help you to understand the artwork?
10. What is the conflict presented in the artwork? Provide examples from the text to support your analysis.
Check Your Understanding
How does Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States represent her cultural identity? Write an interpretive response and provide examples from the text, including Kahlo’s symbolism, to support your analysis.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• Every writer has a unique voice. You have learned that voice is the distinctive use of a writer’s language, achieved in part through diction and syntax, to convey persona or personality. The term voice is also used to express cultural identity. Read the poem several times and use metacognitive markers to examine the voice used in the text.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
My Notes
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Literary Terms
A symbol is anything (object, animal, event, person, or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level.
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17 Have students respond to the questions about the art and the biography. A key point to bring
out with these questions is the connection between Frida’s life and how it is reflected in her art. The conflict in this painting is reflected in her feelings of standing in two countries.
18 Explore Kahlo’s use of symbolism before students write their interpretive responses to the painting for the Check Your Understanding.
19 Students will next read a poem about cultural identity.
20 Read the Setting a Purpose for Reading, and clarify that students will be reading the poem for evidence of the cultural identity and perspective represented by the voice of the speaker.
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