Kalman+Baca+Assignment

The assignment: Read each of these pieces very carefully. Find a detail, phrase, tone, description, issue, conflict, instance of comparison to your novel. Write a thoughtful paragraph about that comparison or contrast.You may write about either piece or both. You can think about what either or both of these pieces help you understand about immigrants, their experience, their sense of national and ethic identity?

Maira Kalman's Blog: http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/i-lift-my-lamp-beside-the-golden-door/

Jimmy Santiago Baca's Poems and Biography: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179708 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jimmy-santiago-baca