1. Homework: Study Island: Allusion and Symbolism (due at midnight)
Bell Ringer: Explain the following quotation: “The price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation.”
Homework: Study Island: Allusion and Symbolism (due at midnight)

2. Activity 1.13
Pg. 69

3. Two Ways to Belong in America
Define mongrelization.
What perspective on marriage is presented?
Arranged/for love? In/Outside ones own culture?
How is juxtaposition apparent in the underlined sentences? (Bottom of Pg. 70)
Explain the meaning of the sentence beginning, “We were always unacknowledged…” (last sentence, 1st Paragraph on Pg. 71)
How does the reference to a long enduring, comfortable yet loveless marriage deviate from the earlier references?

4. Bharati Mira Birthplace Citizenship Dress Marriage Views on Heritage
Attitude toward
Citizenship U.S.A.
living in America

5. Two Ways to Belong in America
How does Mukherjee use the metaphor of marriage to convey the different relationship each sister has with America?
What does Assimilate mean? Which sister chooses to assimilate?

6. Compare and Contrast
Two Ways
Everyday Use

7. Comparing Sisters
Dee & Bharati
Maggie & Mira

8. Rhetorical Triangle

9. The Appeals
pathos – emotional appeal; stirs strong feelings within the audience
logos – logical appeal; constructs a message of a well-reasoned argument
ethos – ethical appeal; establishes credibility and authority of speaker

10. More parts to the construction of an argument…

11. Hook – the beginning of a persuasive essay meant to capture the reader’s attention
Claim – debatable controversial statement the speaker or writer intends to prove with evidence
Support – Evidence for writer’s claim (examples, anecdotes, facts, statistics, research, etc.)
Commentary – connecting the evidence to the claim (How does evidence support claim?)

12. Concession – respectful acknowledgement of opposing viewpoint
Refutation - acknowledging and countering an opposing viewpoint
Call to action – the action the speaker or writer is persuading the audience or reader to take

13. Two Ways to Belong in America
Choose one pair of girls and write an essay to explain their attitudes to a culture
Hook
Thesis - Make a claim that it is better to embrace your heritage or assimilate to your new culture.
Two Ways to Belong in America
How does Mira embrace her background?
How does Bharati assimilate to a new culture?
Everyday Use
How does Maggie embrace her background?
How does Dee assimilate to a new culture?
Call to Action