1. Agenda (for me) *TED Talk Tuesday: 30 Days to try something new
*OPTIC Frida Kahlo
*Workshop Cult Identity Pieces
- if comfortable, partner revise
- if prefer to work solo, indiv. revise
*If time, start “Legal Alien” & poetry response – TPFASTT
HW: Finish “Legal Alien” & TPCASTT – finish & Finalize EA1

2. Welcome and Reminders (1/16/18)
HOMEWORK: Cultural Identity Writing – due tomorrow – typed, hard copy in class with you. MLA heading required (see below for sample) / also, 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double spaced, title centered line below heading
Sally T. Sample
Dr. Spruill
Honors World Literature
17 January 2018
Reminders
Have you signed up for the REMIND texts?
Pre-Course Reading: Things Fall Apart
COMPLETED BY Monday, 1/29): You will need your pre-course reading book (In class) as well as your completed work. You should have the book finished – that is a given.
Need a copy of The Tragedy of Othello (No Fear copy is OK) by Monday, 2/5

3. TED Talk Tuesday Watch the TED Talk and consider the following:
What is ONE small sustainable change you want to make?
Identify obstacles that could prevent that change from occurring.
Determine ways to overcome those obstacles.
What are the benefits of this small, sustainable change?

4. Two Perspectives on Cultural Identity
Reading Purpose (video clip and art): What key ideas and details help you understand Kahlo’s life, art, and cultural identity?
Video Clip: intro to The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
Discuss article – share evidence.
Consider: What did you learn from the article that you didn’t in the video? What did you learn from the video that you didn’t in the article? What is the purpose of ‘reading’ them both?

5. Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States (Frida Kahlo)
OPTIC analysis
How did the information about the artist’s life help you to understand the artwork?
What is the conflict presented in the artwork?
How does Frida Kahlo’s painting represent her cultural identity?

6. Cultural identity writing (narrative or poem)
What is your clear and strongly maintained central idea (e.g., internal/external conflict – as in Two Kinds - or central metaphor/concept – food as in Ethnic Hash) to focus the essay?
What examples/evidence did you use to create a vivid sense of personal cultural identity?
Where are you ‘telling’ instead of ‘showing’? How can you change it? (next slide for example)
What is your organizational strategy? How does it create clarity and cohesion? Where are your transition words? How does it begin? How does it end?
Where is your natural voice? Does it sound forced? Look for ways to be original.

7. Writing Tips Telling Sentence: It was an unusual cat.
Showing Sentence: With yellow eyes glowing red, long, black fur that stood on end, a mouth full of sharp pointed teeth that emitted a yowl like a tiger, I knew that the small animal before me was no ordinary cat.
Some suggestions from what we’ve read:
Begin where you end
Repetition
Use of metaphor
Powerful word choice
Parallel structure (Examples – next slide)

8. Examples of Parallel Structure
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” (The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens)
“What the hammer? what the chain?/In what furnace was thy brain?/What the anvil? what dread grasp/Dare its deadly terrors clasp?” (The Tyger, William Blake)
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal…I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…I have a dream today.” (I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.)

9. Legal Alien
TPFASTT (use guide on pages )

10. “Legal Alien” Collaborative Reader Response
Everyone needs TWO sticky notes.
Individual Response – Sticky Note
Identify the juxtaposition used by the narrator and what it emphasizes/reveals.
Collaborative Response (groups of 4 – grab 1 sticky note each) – Best Answer
How does the author represent cultural identity in the poem?