...Lots of young kids go Through problems they shouldn't face as an adolescent but there still lots of kid around the world that have to face bad situations also they won't know how to handle their situation because they're not mentally mature yet. two young 6th grade boys are about to have face a problem in their life that are very different from each other. In both stories “The jacket” by gary soto and The circuit by Francisco jimenez. Have so similarities and differences. in the story The jacket a boy who receives a really ugly green jacket that his mom bought him even tho he wanted a really cool he just got a cheap old one he has a really terrible experience with that jacket like being made fun off his grades lowering etc. and in The Circuit this boy has the life of a migrant worker and moves every single...
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...The conflicts in the stories, “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto and “The Melting Pot” by Anna Quindell impacts these stories greatly. There are two kinds of a conflict, the internal where the story mostly takes place in the character’s mind and the external where the story is mostly focusing on the world on the outside, not the inside. “Seventh Grade” is a perfect example of an internal conflict where Victor is starting seventh grade and is trying to impress a girl named Teresa. “The Melting Point” focuses on New York city and the people who live there. These stories are perfect examples of internal and external conflicts. In the story “Seventh Grade” Victor is trying to find himself but seems lost in the world of love. As he searches for himself and we travel with...
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...“The Rhetorical Analysis of Gary Soto Essay” In his autobiographical narrative, Gary Soto recreates an experience with his guilty six-year-old self. Ultimately, he shares a story with his audience about how his younger self lost his innocence through stealing a pie. Through the effective use of rhetorical devices, Gary Soto achieves his purpose. Pacing was one of the most useful rhetorical strategies used in his essay. In the beginning of the narrative, a slow pace was implied as Soto explained his “boredom” as he sat “underneath the house… looking for something to do”. He then felt anxious as the “juice of guilt” began to “[wet his] underarms” while he tried to decide which pie to steal. The pace drops to a moderate level after Soto is relieved that he was able to steal the pie and “no one saw” him do so. Soto’s relief was short lived as he went into a panic assuming that his neighbors were...
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...Like Mexicans Gary Soto The essay “Like Mexicans” by Gary Soto describes the similarity that people have, no matter their origins. Soto explains in this essay how a specific race does not describe how people are. When Gary was younger he received two advices from his grandmother. A Good Advice and a bad advice, the bad was to be a barber to work less and earn money and the good was to get marry with a Mexican girl, advices that he always remember. In this story the Soto’s family expect that Gary gets marry with an Mexican woman, when he gets older, because they think Mexicans are better wives for their behave and how they treat their husbands. They assume that people should get marry with people equal to them, meaning same culture, nationality and economic status. At the age of 20 when Gary was older he met a Japanese women with who she felt in love and thought she was the one to be his wife and make a family. The new was not accepted immediately for his family and friends, his best friend Scott disagree with Gary’s decision of having this relationship with the Japanese women named Carolyn. The argument Scott use to disagree this relationship was that Carolyn was too good for Gary, for her race. Once Gary visited Carolyn’s home he saw her family and the way they live, he realized that race does not define your economic status or your intellectualism. No matter what race people are: Black, Asian, Mexican or “OKIES” (a name his grandmother used to call people whose were different...
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...Theme is the main idea, overall message, or lesson the author wants you to take away from the story. In “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, Soto expresses several themes throughout his short story. In an essay, explain at least three different themes the author was trying to convey to his readers. Use the text from Edgenuity to help you with your essay. You may also use your RACE Response from last lab as one of your body paragraphs. “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto expresses several themes throughout his short story.Three themes that are used are “Don’t change yourself for anybody.”,”You can’t be perfect for anyone you can only try.”,and “If they don’t like you for you leave them.”All three of these themes have one thing in common which is the message of being yourself.You can tell all of...
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...The pie by Gary Soto essay Do you remember as a child stealing another's kid snack just because it seemed tasty? And then when the teacher told you to justify your actions you started to cry and felt like a piece of crap because you knew what you did was sinful and against your core values. This what Gary Soto did when he stole the pie from the German market and feels bad because he is over the top religious? Gary recreates the moment of his guilty six-year self, stealing the pie and become a sinner by using deep imagery, sharp word choice and biblical allusions that make sense. The story would be bland and would not have a point if Gary did not include these Soto’s skill of recreating the moment, using biblical allusions, makes its appearance...
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...“The Pie” Essay Sin can take over someone’s life and can change their perspective of things. Those who succumb to sin will regret it later in life. In an excerpt from his autobiographical narrative, A Summer Life, Gary Soto describes his first memory of sinning and the guilt associated with the sin through the use of a light tone and biblical allusion, repetition, and imagery. Soto begins his story by detailing the event of stealing a pie at the age of six. He uses biblical allusion and imagery to highlight his struggle with sin. At the beginning, the image of, “the shadow of angels…” depicts a sense of ignorance because the reader sees that Soto forgot about angels and his religion as he thought about which pie to steal. This is significant...
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...“Like Mexicans” is a narrative essay written by author Gary Soto who is using his own personal Experience to describe his moral believes, cultural values that shaped his thinking and tried to influence his mindset. His cultural identity as a Mexican had a deep impact in shaping the principles of his life and had an impact on his attitude towards making a future decisions. Author is describing two periods of his life, when he was in his early teens around thirteen years of age and later when his emotions, thoughts and believes have changed, around his young adulthood early twenty’s . This essay talks about Gary’s childhood being raised in a closed Mexican community with the set rules and expectations of the society that every Mexican should morally obey. Everything that he learned, observed and truly believed has changed when he became a young adult. His values about life and people has drastically taken a different path in life, when he met his future wife Carolyn, who was a Japanese decent. The author very much concentrates on his grandmother and her strong influence on trying to talk Gary into marrying only a Mexican girl. For her everyone that was not Mexican would not be a fitted wife for her grandson Gary. She sais “ No Okies hijo”, “ My son married one, and they fight everyday about I don’t know what and I don’t know what”. She is using her personal unfamiliarity and unawareness about people from different backgrounds and that made her indirectly...
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...The Jacket The author named Gary Soto in the beginning of this article titled The Jacket explains about a green jacket and how it has failed him at first I wasn’t very sure about what he was talking about how it has failed him what does he mean by that. Then he tells his mother he would like a new jacket like the bikers wear leather and studded the next day he returns home from school and realized he had a new jacket on his bed and it was nothing like he described to his mother the day before the author described the jacket color as “ day old guacamole” he was so upset he wanted to cry because he absolutely hated that jacket he refers to his jacket as his “enemy”. He goes downstairs and tells his mom thank you as he goes outside he goes to play with his dog he torments his dog Brownie by hitting him with the sleeves of his jacket and Brownie jumps trying to bite them and missing several times and finally he catches the new jacket on the sleeve....
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...Gary Soto’s “Looking for Work” Gary Soto is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. He grew up in Fresno, California and has published several volumes of poetry as well as essays and prose memoirs. “Looking for Work” appeared in Living up the Street: arrative Recollections (1985). One July, while killing ants on the kitchen sink with a rolled newspaper, I had a nine-year-old’s vision of wealth that would save us from ourselves. For weeks I had drunk Kool-Aid and watched morning reruns of Father Knows Best, whose family was so uncomplicated in its routine that I very much wanted to imitate it. The first step was to get my brother and sister to wear shoes at dinner. “Come on, Rick – come on, Deb,” I whined. But Rick mimicked me and the same day that I asked him to wear shoes he came to the diner table in only his swim trunks. My mother didn’t notice, nor did my sister, as we sat to eat our beans and tortillas in the stifling heat of our kitchen. We all gleamed like cellophane, wiping the sweat from our brows with the backs of our hands as we talked about the day: Frankie our neighbor was beat up by Faustino; the swimming pool at the playground would be closed for a day because the pump was broken. Such was our life. So that morning, while doing-in the train of ants which arrived each day, I decided to become wealthy, and right away! After downing a bowl of cereal, I took a rake from the garage and started up the block to look for work. We lived on an ordinary block of mostly...
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...Resources for Teaching Prepared by Lynette Ledoux Copyright © 2007 by Bedford/St. Martin’s All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. 2 1 f e 0 9 d c 8 7 b a For information, write: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116 (617-399-4000) ISBN-10: 0–312–44705–1 ISBN-13: 978–0–312–44705–2 Instructors who have adopted Rereading America, Seventh Edition, as a textbook for a course are authorized to duplicate portions of this manual for their students. Preface This isn’t really a teacher’s manual, not, at least, in the sense of a catechism of questions and correct answers and interpretations. Because the questions provided after each selection in Rereading America are meant to stimulate dialogue and debate — to generate rather than terminate discourse — they rarely lend themselves to a single appropriate response. So, while we’ll try to clarify what we had in mind when framing a few of the knottier questions, we won’t be offering you a list of “right” answers. Instead, regard this manual as your personal support group. Since the publication of the first edition, we’ve had the chance to learn from the experiences of hundreds of instructors nationwide, and we’d like to use this manual as a forum where we can share some of their concerns, suggestions, experiments, and hints. We’ll begin with a roundtable on issues you’ll probably want to address before you meet your class. In the first section of this manual, we’ll discuss approaches to...
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...food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin,...
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...[pic] JPPSS ELA COURSE GUIDE 2011-2012 ENGLISH I The JPPSS Instructional Sequence Guides are aligned with the LA Comprehensive Curriculum. JPPSS Implementation of Activities in the Classroom Incorporation of activities into lesson plans is critical to the successful implementation of the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum. The Comprehensive Curriculum indicates one way to align instruction with Louisiana standards, benchmarks, and grade-level expectations. The curriculum is aligned with state content standards, as defined by grade-level expectations (GLEs), and organized into coherent, time-bound units with sample activities and classroom assessments to guide teaching and learning. The units in the curriculum have been arranged so that the content to be assessed will be taught before the state testing dates. While teachers may substitute equivalent activities and assessments based on the instructional needs, learning styles, and interests of their students, the Comprehensive Curriculum should be a primary resource when planning instruction. Grade level expectations—not the textbook—should determine the content to be taught. Textbooks and other instructional materials should be used as resource in teaching the grade level expectations...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th...
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