1. agenda
IR (Set goals – 10 minute timed read for page numbers/goals sheet)
EA#1 – Cultural Identity Writing
Review requirements (due Friday, read aloud should take about 1-2 min to read, typed, represent some aspect of your cultural identity)
Review their I Am statements
sample cult identity writings
“Legal Alien” – choral reading
“By Any Other Name” (Finish for HW; use synthesis chart and handout with collaborative discussion Qs – due tomorrow!)

2. Reminders Grab your Independent Reading Book!
New Vocab Unit 1B starts soon…
You should have finished your I Am…statements.
Cultural Identity writing – due this Friday, 8/17
We will present in a feather circle!

3. Independent reading

4. Intro to EA#1 Cultural Identity Writing – handout with assignment
A poem or prose piece revealing and describing some aspect of your cultural identity
Present Friday, 8/17 in feather circle
Typed hard copy due that day
I am statements
Review sample Cultural Identity writings
How would you describe the speaker’s cultural identity?
What are some of the beliefs, characteristics, etc. of the speaker’s cultural identity?
What writing techniques did the writer use to help communicate cultural identity?

5. Questions to help your thinking
How does the way you look differ from who you identify as? This could be about your age, gender, ethnicity, interests, and even physical attributes.
How does your parent’s version of you differ from your own? Do they have different goals and ideas for you than you do for yourself?
What stereotypes do people assume about you that aren’t true?
Many times our first and last names give a clue about our culture. What do you know/like/dislike about your name?
What do you want to say about your culture? What do you want others to know about you?

6. Legal Alien

7. By Any other name

8. Synthesis chart
Two Kinds, Frida

9. Final Thoughts (If time)
Index Card Response (to turn in)
I came to class expecting…
I have learned…
One question I have is…