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Lesson 1 (from "College Bound," "Moving In," "Initiation," and "Unexpected Turns")
Objective
Students will study the use of particular tone types within the narrative of Reaching Out in order to build their understanding of how a writer’s purposeful manipulation of tone can influence the way in which a nonfiction work is received by the reader.
An examination of Francisco Jimenez’s memoir entitled Reaching Out presents an excellent opportunity for students to study a writer’s use of various tone types. Jimenez is in the unique position of having been first an illegal, and then a legal, immigrant to the United States himself and of having family members living within and moving between the countries discussed in the memoir. Due to his close involvement with the topic, Jimenez often uses a tone of abject anger or one of sad sarcasm as he discusses the difficult plights of those who ultimately feel at home within neither their birth...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.5, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.5, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.5, 11-12.5
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