1. Decorate and put your First & Last name on your Notebook Label, with your class period.
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Warriors will analyze elements in a memoir in order to infer how cultural identity is central to the meaning of a work.

2. Back Ground: Read the background information handout with your group.
Answer question 1 & 2 on page 34

3. Reading: Read the “about the author” box.
As you read the text with your group mark the text for answer to the questions:
What cultural elements are described that reveal a sense of the narrator’s cultural identity?
What are the reasons for the conflict?
How are the conflicts resolved?

4. Closing: Reading Questions 1.7
Using your Marks, answer the three questions in your new Composition book.
What cultural elements are described that reveal a sense of the narrator’s cultural identity?
What are the reasons for the conflict?
How are the conflicts resolved?