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WU: Assimilation What is assimilation?

Definition:The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group: “Waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture.”

Journal Write: Assimilation

When was a time you had to choose to assimilate to another culture/place/norm, etc.? What did you alter about yourself or your behavior? How did this affect you? Did you learn anything new from the experience?

Finish: "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B270PU2LFF7bcWhHUVg1d1ZsMVk/view?usp=sharing

Discussion Questions: How do the different family members and townspeople affect the story? How are they characterized? What is important about the setting in this story? How does the place affect the people? How/why are names, language, architecture, nature, and food important in this story? Are there important symbols, metaphors, or other literary devices that Bradbury uses? What do they make you understand? Why does Bradbury choose to set this story in Mars? How is it also about Earth? What issues around colonialism does this story make us analyze? What is Bradbury warning us about, or what is he trying to teach us? How does this story relate to the ideas about identity and culture we’ve discussed? What does this story reveal about the process of cultural assimilation? How does it relate to the notion of “us and them” or what it means to be an outsider/alien or an insider?

Work time: add to your T-Chart from last class with examples of metaphor, simile, and imagery* *If you don't have at least 3-4 examples in each section of your T-Chart, keep working on this for HW

HW: Bring two themes (written in your reading/writing journal) to class next time.