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Name: _________________________________ Date: ________________________________Assignment: Classwork 8/20/2018 Education is Freedom

Do Now

Directions: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

**1). What are the major assessment tasks for AP Seminar and what percentage is each task worth for your overall AP Score?

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Key Takeaways from Do Now Discussion

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Identity PerspectivesDirections: Today we will think more about identity—personal and collective. Below you will find two images of the same individual: Travyon Martin. The Martin family released the first image to the press and the second was released to the press by the legal defense team of George Zimmerman (the man who stood trial for the death of Travyon Martin). Removing—for now—what you know about this case, use the planning space under each image to record how an individual—who knew nothing about the case and saw these images for the first time—could and would perceive Travyon from the image.

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Possible Perceptions from Image 1

Name: _________________________________ Date: ________________________________Assignment: Classwork 8/20/2018 Education is FreedomImage 2:


Possible Perceptions from Image 2


You and & Your Name: Frida Kahlo and Sandra Cisneros

Directions: Below we have a famous portrait by Mexican muralist Frida Kahlo. Looking at the painting, what can you infer about Frida’s identity? Who is she? What kind of person is she? How do you know? Please record your responses (silently and independently) in the space below

Self-Portrait along the Boarder Line between Mexico and the United States,Frida Kahlo (1932)



“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros Directions: We will now turn from one strong Latina woman to another, Sandra Cisneros. Like Frida Kahlo, Cisneros is Mexican but she is Mexican-American, born and raised in Chicago. Again, like Frida, Cisneros is an artist but rather uses words instead of paint to express her identity. Below is Sandra Cisneros “My Name” excerpted from her famous novel The House on Mango Street, As you read, you should annotate the text specifically for both positive and negative connotations of her name and identity. Use a + to represent positive connotations and a – for negative connotations. Then, silently and independently after you finish reading and annotating, record responses to the questions that follow.

In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father

plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.

It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse--which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female-but

I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong.

My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild, horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off.

Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That's the way he did it.

And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or

was she sorry because she couldn't be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window.

At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as

thick as sister's name Magdalena--which is uglier than mine. Magdalena who at least- -can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza. would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees. Esperanza as Lisandra or Maritza or

Zeze the X. Yes. Something like Zeze the X will do.



**1). Describe the speaker. Who is she?

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**2). Write a 1-sentence summary of this piece. What is the main idea?

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3). What is the tone of this passage?

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EXIT TICKET

Directions: Below you will find Norman Rockwell’s “Triple Self-Portrait.” Examine the painting and respond to the following question in complete sentences using formal academic prose. Consult the scoring rubric as you write.

Based on the drawing, what does Norman Rockwell consider his identity to be?

Scoring RubricNo Partial Credit Will be Given for Any Category

The response provides a hypothesis regarding Norman Rockwell’s identity.

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The response provides at least one specific example from the source to justify the hypothesis.

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The response is written in professional college-level academic prose.

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