Returning By Elias Miguel Munoz
RETURNING by Elias Miguel Munoz |
About the Author: Elias Miguel Munoz was born in Cuba in 1957. After he came to the United States of America he went to the University of California. He got his PHD in 1984. He has published two novels in English and two collections of poems.
Summery: The beginning paints a beautiful picture of a place where only good dreams are fashioned. Rice and black beans no longer satisfy them because they are becoming Americanized. When talking about the “eternal summer”, there are some parts that still remind them of home. The next stanza is about them not be able to do the things he loves now but when he returns home, he will do the things he loves he may not have everything now but they do remember their home and later when he can return to his home. He can live his Cuban tradition while living in America but he still dreams about returning home.
What I love: I would like to introduce this to my students to show them that different cultures have different artistic expression. I would also like to show them that while they may express their tradition in a new land it is not home. I would like them to be able to empathizing with these people from another land and another culture, that not everything that the students from America have is given to these immigrants. My Objective: Since the lesson plan is the students writing a paper I would determine if they have answered all of the questions in the prompt, how thorough they were, and their language throughout the paper. Lesson plans: Lesson plans: Something that I would like my class to do would be after we had read the book to put ourselves in his shoes. After the class had done this as a whole and found things that they liked and didn't like about being in his shoes, then I would ask them to write a paper using this as a prompt: Why does he mention those things specifically? How would we as a culture help with people like this that cannot go home? What is the time setting of each of these stanzas and how does it relate to the present. Prompts from New Worlds of Literature Where to buy the book that the poem is in -- https://www.amazon.com/New-Worlds-Literature-Writings-Americas/dp/0393963543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481032785&sr=8-1&keywords=new+worlds+of++literature
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