Guiding Questions:
1. What is strange about the years listed at the beginning of this second section?
2. Why does Papi decide to become an American citizen?
3. What kinds of mischief do the García girls get into, resulting in threats from the parents to
ship them back to the island?
4. Name two incidents from the story that show how the García girls stick together.
5. What is Mami’s “little revolution”?
6. Why do the Fifi’s sisters think she has turned into an “S.A.P?”
7. Who is Manuel Gustavo?
8. For what reasons do Fifi’s sisters question her relationship with Manuel? What is their
nickname for him?
9. Why do the García sisters finally decide to get rid of Manuel?
2) Read Act I.i from King Lear.
3) Begin newspaper assignment.
Newspaper Article Assignment
You will be writing a short newspaper article on one of the topics below. The entire class will be writing on one collaborative document. Once you have selected your topic, you will do as much research as possible on the topic and write a short article in your designated section of the newspaper. Every article will include one small image related to your story. Here are your possible topics. I will act as the editor-in-chief of the paper. This assignment is due at the end of the class. It is worth 50 points.
Topics:
1) US Politics
- Young children illegally crossing border into the US (Anthony)
- Ray Nagin (Mayor of New Orleans goes to jail)
- Who is Shane Miller? (Yvette)
- Hackensack drug ring (Jennifer)
- Teaneck Senior prank (Serena)
- Paterson 12 year old shot (Kenia)
- World Cup Recap (Martin)
- NBA Free Agency news (Ray)
- Baseball predictions (Amanda)
- What is ISIS? (Fred)
- Israel and Hamas update (Gabriel)
- Update on Boko Haram
5) Music
- New music to listen to (Will)
- Old music (pre-2000) to listen to (Massiel))
- Small bands, big sounds (Andre)
6) Technology
- What is Oculus Rift? (Jason)
- What do we know about the iPhone 6? (Gabby)
- What is a google glass? (Matt)
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