11.25.14+and+11.26.14

Read: "Ritchie Valens"

Annotate: 1) Literary Devices--symbol, metaphor, allusion, imagery 2) Conflicts--internal and external 3) Questions/vocabulary

Watch: Short bio on Ritchie Valens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dea5JHD1mI

Discuss: Themes and connections to "Borderlands"


 * HW: “Borderlands” and “Ritchie Valens” **
 * Due Monday in your Google folder **
 * Think about the ideas we’ve discussed in both poems and the ways that both authors discuss similar ideas even though they’re writing about different subject matter. **
 * 1) In 3-4 sentences, write about the similar themes that emerge in both texts. **
 * Sentence frame: In both “To Live in the Borderlands Means You” and “Ritchie Valens” both authors discuss **
 * 2) Then, find two quotes per poem that support your ideas. **
 * 3) Then, underline the literary devices in each quote and list them after the quote. **
 * EX: To survive the __Borderlands__ /you must __live sin fronteras__ / __be a crossroads.__ **
 * __Borderlands__ =symbol for being a mixture of different places/races/cultures **
 * __live sin fronteras=__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">metaphor for accepting the different elements of cultural past/heritage/race and not letting them divide oneself **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__be a crossroads__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">=metaphor for embracing differences and seeing the ways they create options rather than letting them condemn one to a narrow path **