Friday, October 2nd

Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to...

• Determine the author's purpose in writing her essay, "Names/Nombres."
• Apply ideas/beliefs from the essay to compose an original graduation speech or a series of interview questions and answers.

Homework: Students are to brainstorm and devise a message that they would like to explain in the personal essay. The message relates to a piece of advice that they could explain that is based on three personal experiences.