Day 1

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Change of Place

    Kind of Activity:

    Group Discussion

    Objective:

    Examine family dynamics in cultural contexts and how it impacts individual life outcomes.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.6

    Structure:

    In the first three chapters, the girls each assess the choices they have made as adults in the United States with strong ties to their home country, the Dominican Republic. Discuss how those choices may have been different had the girls remained in the Dominican Republic their entire lives. Would they have had the life of their mother, or would they have been able to earn graduate degrees (as 3 of them do) and marry men from other countries (as Sofia does)?...

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