INTRO TO THIS WEEK’S LESSONS This minu unit will last the month of May! It will focus on food, cultural identity, and poetry. Basically, we will be reading poems and articles about food and making connections to more complex ideas associated with identity, culture, lifestyle, pleasure, and process. This unit was inspired by all the cooking I’ve been doing with my family (my homemade salsa is getting legit!), the Netflix TV show Ugly Delicious (check it out! It’s a cool show, it’s funny, and you can learn a lot from it), and this poem about a “Cuban Thanksgiving” by one of my favorite poets. Each day you will read a poem, react to it, and then respond to guiding questions which dive into what the poem is expressing about a topic. This week, you’ll have some options of poems to read and analyze! Yu can read the options first then decide, or simply choose the title you like best and commit to engaging with that one! Good luck and please email me during office hours to text or video chat! KEY VOCABULARY ● Culture: the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. ● Identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. ● Cultural identity: Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group or groups. It is part of a person's self-conception and self-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any kind of social group(s) that has its own distinct culture. THURSDAY 5.14 LESSON PLAN “FOOD, MOOD, & TONE” Warm Up (5 MIN): Determine the “mood” of the painting. To determine mood, ask yourself the questions below, then fill in the graphic organizer detailing what you see in the painting and how it makes you feel: What is your emotional response to the artwork? What is the overall mood (i.e positive; energetic; excitement; serious; sedate; peaceful; calm; melancholic; tense; uneasy; uplifting; foreboding; calm; turbulent)? Which subject matter choices help to communicate this mood (i.e. weather and lighting conditions; color of objects and scenes)? Pitahayas by Frieda Khalo (1938) Mood What I see... Makes me feel... Flying Fries by Ron Magnes Mood What I see... Makes me feel... Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1566-1569) Mood What I see... Makes me feel... Task: Determine the mood and tone of the poem you choose to read and analyze. ● Mood = (in literature) a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. ● Tone = the speaker’s attitude toward *something. *something = a topic. The topic can be anything, such as… health, racism, love, a pair of shoes, religion, their identity, the weather, etc. CHOOSE ONE OPTION TO FOCUS ON TODAY: Apples by Peter Heller cutting greens by LUCILLE CLIFTON Meditation on a Grapefruit by CRAIG ARNOLD To Catch a Fish BY ELOISE GREENFIELD Directions: After reading the poem 1-2 times, describe and analyze the poem’s mood and tone in 4-6 sentences below: *Sentence Starters: The mood of ____________ by ______________ creates / evokes / has a feeling of … _________________ by ______________ has a tone of … towards .... *Sample response: The mood of America by Richard Blanco is a rich mixture of confusion and unity. The Thanksgiving dinner which fuses Cuban food with “American” food, Spanish with English, and opposing political viewpoints evokes a confused feeling while still revealing a sense of unity because the family is trying to bring these things together for the holiday. The speaker’s tone is perseverance towards understanding his American identity. He persists in understanding who he is under unclear circumstances, accepting that he can be both in the end and that it may not be easy being both, but it is true.
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