Text Set by Julie Flores
Audience: 10th grade. Students are at grade-level.
Anchor text: Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Theme: The American Dream
Purpose: Explicating the challenges of achieving the American Dream.
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
This story is about an undocumented couple, Candido and America, who move to the United States in search of the American Dream. The characters face many challenges that make that dream unreachable.
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This story is about an undocumented couple, Candido and America, who move to the United States in search of the American Dream. The characters face many challenges that make that dream unreachable.
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Bilingual in a Cardboard Box by Javier Piña
This impactful poem is a representation of the dual self in
America. The author is Mexican and American. He uses only
positive words when describing his Mexican self, and negative
words when describing his American self. An interpretation can
be that this person went on a search for the American Dream
and did not attain it.
Bilingual in a Cardboard Box by Javier Piña
This impactful poem is a representation of the dual self in
America. The author is Mexican and American. He uses only
positive words when describing his Mexican self, and negative
words when describing his American self. An interpretation can
be that this person went on a search for the American Dream
and did not attain it.