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Bellringer #4
9/22/16
Answer the following questions with
2-3 sentence response.
1. Do parents have different hopes and
standards for their sons than for their
daughters?
2. Is school designed more for boys or girls?
3. Do you think students should be segregated
by gender? (All boys/All girls schools)
National Hispanic Heritage
Month
Sept 15- Oct 15
Hispanic Heritage Month
9/22/16
Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera was
educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and
he earned his MFA from the University of Iowa
Writers’ Workshop.
His numerous poetry collections include187
Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border:
Undocuments 1971-2007,Half of the World in
Light: New and Selected Poems(2008),
and Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini
Dream (1999).
In addition to publishing more than a dozen
collections of poetry, Herrera has written short
stories, young adult novels, and children’s
literature. In 2015 he was named U.S. poet
laureate.
Five Directions to My House
Juan Felipe Herrera, 1948
1. Go back to the grain yellow hills where the broken
speak of elegance
2. Walk up to the canvas door, the short bed stretched
against the clouds
3. Beneath the earth, an ant writes with the grace of a
governor
4. Blow, blow Red Tail Hawk, your hidden sleeve—your
desert secrets
5. You are there, almost, without a name, without a body,
go now
6. I said five, said five like a guitar says six.
1. What do you think this poem is really about?
2. What is the tone of the poem? (angry, sad, lonely, confused, etc. )
HALF-MEXICAN
Odd to be a half-Mexican, let me put it this way
I am Mexican + Mexican, then there’s the question of the half
To say Mexican without the half, well it means another thing
One could say only Mexican
Then think of pyramids – obsidian flaw, flame etchings, goddesses with
Flayed visages claw feet & skulls as belts – these are not Mexican
They are existences, that is to say
Slavery, sinew, hearts shredded sacrifices for the continuum
Quarks & galaxies, the cosmic milk that flows into trees
Then darkness
What is the other – yes
It is Mexican too, yet it is formless, it is speckled with particles
European pieces? To say colony or power is incorrect
Better to think of Kant in his tiny room
Shuffling in his black socks seeking out the notion of time
Or Einstein re-working the erroneous equation
Concerning the way light bends – all this has to do with
The half, the half-thing when you are a half-being
Time
Light
How they stalk you & how you beseech them
All this becomes your life-long project, that is
You are Mexican. One half Mexican the other half
Mexican, then the half against itself.
Pablo Neruda
Chilean Poet 1904-1973
Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XVII
1. What do you think this poem is really about?
2. What is the tone of the poem? (angry, sad,
lonely, confused, etc. )
Short Response Questions
A.
Answer the question.
C.
Cite evidence from the text.
E.
Explain how this evidence proves
your point. Elaborate.
Frida Kahlo
"I
hope the exit is joyful — and I
hope never to return” — Frida
("Espero alegre la salida — y
espero no volver jamás")
1907-1954
Mexican Painter