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Lesson Goals

Analyze how twodi�erent texts

similar topic.

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Analyze the

an essay.

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Interpret the

poem.

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Words to Know

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a message a text conveys about a topic

to win over to a belief or position

to enter a new country permanently

to tell or explain the meaning of

a group of ideas presented to persuade

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Immigrating to America

To immigrate means to enter a new country .

• To emigrate means to a country to live somewhere else.

• Immigrants faced many when they arrived in a new country.

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The Promise of America

• Between 1892 and 1954, more than immigrants were

at Ellis Island.

• Early immigrants were from England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavian countries.

• They largely came for or freedom.

• Life in America also held the possibility of a better .

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The Old and the New Colossus

• The image on the left is of a statue called The Colossus of .

“Colossus” is a word that means . It was one of the Seven

Wonders of the World and was finished in 282 B.C.

• The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France as a gesture of

and was meant to symbolize the and freedom

that both countries appreciated.

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Understanding Theme

A theme is a a text conveys about a topic. A theme is:

• expressed in a sentence.

• an about life rather than a moral or judgment on how

people should act.

Identifying a Theme in “The New Colossus”

Finding a theme is an important part of interpreting a poem.

• To support an interpretation, you need

to find .

• The theme is, America is a land of

.

Underline the phrase which suggests rich and wealth in the passage.

“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

—“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus

• America is a land of possibilities. • Freedom

• The promise of America

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Joseph Bruchac (b. 1942)

• Is of mixed American Indian (Abenaki) and ancestry

• Is the author of more than books for adults and children

• Writes books that recount tales of the Adirondacks and the

native peoples of the Northeast

• Lives in the Adirondack mountains of , in the house where his grandparents raised him

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Tools of an Argument

An argument is a group of presented to , or to win over to a belief or position

Word choice

Building an Argument

As a child of a Native American family, you

are part of a very select group of survivors,

and I learned that my family possessed

some “inside” knowledge of what really

happened when those poor, tired masses

came to our homes.

–“Thanksgiving: A Native American View,” Jacqueline Keeler

Phrases that build her argument:

• “a very select group of survivors”

• “my family possessed some ‘inside’ knowledge”

• “came to our homes”

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Jacqueline Keeler (b. 1942)

• Is an Indian

• Is a member of the Dineh Nation and the Dakota Sioux

• Works with the American Indian Child Resource Center in , California

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Building an Effective Argument

ReasonStatement that

the claim

Claim (Thesis)

Umbrella statement for all parts

of an

EvidenceDetails, statistics, and

facts

Analyzing Keeler’s Reasoning

:

• “Thanksgiving to me has never been about Pilgrims.”

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• “We were to sing ‘Land of the Indian’s pride’ instead.”

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• “Our people . . . had been here much longer and taken much better care of the land.”

Thanksgiving to me has never been about

Pilgrims. When I was six, my mother, a woman

of the Dineh nation, told my sister and me

not to sing “Land of the Pilgrim’s pride” in

“America the Beautiful.” Our people, she said,

had been here much longer and taken much

better care of the land. We were to sing “Land

of the Indian’s pride” instead.

–“Thanksgiving: A Native American View,” Jacqueline Keeler

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Summary The Promise of America: Different Genres’ Approaches to the Same Topic

Lesson Question How do two different genres address a similar topic?

Answer

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