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Wednesday 16 december 2009
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Posted in: 2009-2010 - Tale LV2
Hey,
today I first gave you your grades for the poems: congratulations to all of you for the good job you have accomplished. I will publish them on the blog as soon as I have scanned them.
Then, we moved on with the study of the text and here is what we said about the difficult situations Ana had to face:
today I first gave you your grades for the poems: congratulations to all of you for the good job you have accomplished. I will publish them on the blog as soon as I have scanned them.
Then, we moved on with the study of the text and here is what we said about the difficult situations Ana had to face:
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Hardships / Ordeals (difficultés - obstacles - épreuves)
Difficult situations:
- She went through the Arizona desert.
- She doesn’t have any ID. She an illegal alien. She is undocumented. -
1) She had to find money to pay the smuggler / coyote[i].
• Helpful people: her sister gave her 1000 dollars.
• Opponent: poverty in Mexico – find a reliable smuggler.
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2) She had to cross the border in dreadful conditions.
=> cf. verbs of difficult movement: Crawl – trudge – scrunch – [land]
• Helpful people: the smuggler.
• Opponent: border patrol – the climate.
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3) She had to find a job and earn money.
• Helpful people: Christina, a teacher who employed her.
• Opponent: immigration services.
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4) She had to hide from the police / border patrol.
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5) She had to climb the social ladder.
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6) She had to abandon her children.
• Helpful people: her mother.
• “Opponent”: she is far from her children and family; psychological problems.
HW:
- For Tuesday Jan. 5th: Complete the worksheet I gave you about the text.
- For Wednesday Jan. 6th: Turn in the essay p. 31, Going Further, n°4.
- For Jan. 20th: Turn in the type bac exercise I gave you.
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