7th Period English II - Valdez Assignments

Answer the 4 questions below to reflect on your experience as an IB learner completing your English and US history interdisciplinary project. Each response should be 5-7 sentences in length. Please check the rubric on the next page to make sure your responses are thorough before you press submit.

copy and paste your says, means, matters in the document below.

Write an essay in which you explain how authors use literary devices to purposefully convey a message to readers about identity.

If you are struggling to find a literary device, look at some examples below.


Mexican American Disambiguation
“We were safe from deportation, which should not be confused with walking the plank.” - Olivarez
"Not to be confused with Mexican-Americans or Chicanos. i am a Chicano from Chicago" - Olivarez - Alliteration

Wishing for a Hero
“Fightin' demons, like them drugs take control of me” - Polo G
"They killed Martin for dreamin' and now I can't sleep" - Polo G - Allusion

Changes
“Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers” - Tupac
"Things will never be the same. That's just the way it is. That's just the way it is. Things will never be the same" - Tupac - Repetition

Mirror
“In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.” - Plath
"Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is." - Sylvia - Personification

Identity
“I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging on cliffs, like an eagle” - Polanco
"Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt" - Julio - Simile

Make an annotation where you find a literary device about identity (the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person)
Make an annotation where you “summarize”.
Make an annotation of your choice (question, connection, summarize, literary device)

Answer the questions below

Make an annotation where you find a literary device about identity (the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person)
Make an annotation where you “summarize”.
Make an annotation of your choice (question, connection, summarize, literary device)

Then answer the 5 questions at the end

Read the poem a second time and provide at least 8 annotations (4 on each page). If you are finished early, you could work on the discussion questions below the poem.

You will look up the definition of the poetic devices and create/find an example showing your understanding. Then tell me why it's a good example of the poetic device. You will then create or find a picture for your example.