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21 FIRST READ: Based on the complexity of the passage and your knowledge of your students, you may choose to conduct the first reading in a variety of ways:
• independent reading • paired reading
• small group reading • choral reading
• read aloud
22 As students are reading, monitor their progress. Be sure
they are engaged with the text and annotating examples that express the speaker’s voice, cultural identity, and conflict.
23 If you choose to read the poem aloud, ask students to underline words and phrases, or lines that establish the speaker’s voice in the poem. Discuss their initial findings and ask whether this poem seems to be more about internal or external conflict.
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12. Key Ideas and Details: (RL.9–10.1) What is implied in lines 5–7 by the different activities performed in English and Spanish? How are the activities alike and different? What is
Mora saying about the people who do those activities?
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meaning of the word alien as it is used in the title of the poem? What is the meaning as it is used in line 11? Think of what you already know about the meaning of the word alien. Does it have multiple meanings or connotations? Look at how those meanings might be different as it is used in the title and in line 11.
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Two Perspectives on Cultural Identity
WORD CONNECTIONS
Roots and Affixes
The prefix bi- comes from Latin and means “both” or “in two parts.” Why does the author begin and end the poem with words that use the prefix bi-? What is she saying about her cultural identity?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pat Mora is a poet, writer, and social activist whose works explore issues of heritage and social inequality. An avid traveler, Mora wrote Communion (1991) about her experiences traveling in Cuba, India, and Pakistan. A year later, she published her first children’s book about a beloved aunt who taught her to appreciate her own Mexican American heritage.
Poetry
My Notes
by Pat Mora Alien
hyphenated: connected
Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural,
able to slip from “How’s life?” to “Me’stan volviendo loca,” able to sit in a paneled office
5 drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish
at a Mexican restaurant,
American but hyphenated,
viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, 10 perhaps inferior, definitely different,
viewed by Mexicans as alien, (their eyes say, “You may speak Spanish but you’re not like me”) an American to Mexicans
15 a Mexican to Americans a handy token
sliding back and forth
between the fringes of both worlds by smiling
20 by masking the discomfort of being pre-judged Bi-laterally.
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