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The main idea in the video is that a form of language should not be imposed upon anyone as a standard - people express themselves differently, through different words and dialects of their language, which is their identity. A common theme is acceptance - take students as they come and value them for who they are. The audience for the video educators.

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The main idea is fighting between two identities because she didn't think she would be accepted as both at the same time - a Chicana and a lesbian, she felt like she would be betraying her culture as a Chicana. A message from her video is that she had to chose between being a Chicana lesbian, or a white lesbian - ultimately choosing the "white part" of herself, because it gave her the option to achieve more just because of privilege. The audience is for Moraga is both Chicanos and white people - she is "playing on both sides" - Chicanos wouldn't accept her as a Chicana and a lesbian, and white people wouldn't accept her as a Chicana - so she made the best of both worlds - she played as a white lesbian for a white audience, and as Chicana for a Chicano audience.

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The main idea in "How to tame a wild tongue" is how her language is closely linked to her identity and it defines her and how she uses different dialects of said language to communicate with different people in her life found in different circumstances. A common idea in her text is what she experienced because she was a "Chicana" , the judgments and labels while growing up in the US. The audience in Anzaldua's text is everyone that is outside of her culture, meaning not a Chicana growing up in the US. This is made clear because she is explaining her hardships in detail, thing she wouldn't have to do with someone from the same culture.

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The purpose of smoke signals is to show the perceptions of other races and cultures. Since you are "this" you must be "this"

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Both Adichie and Nikki created characters based on how society perceives them.

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The purpose of the text is to show how easy it is to portray yourself as someone else and how different you look to people with different perspectives. People around us influence the way we act. Towards the end of the video she explains that she would like someone to tell her who she is rather than her finding out herself.

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The purpose of the talk was to shine light upon prejudice and ignorance. Bring awareness to our own judgments and prejudices

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The main idea is that there is not just a single original self but an amalgam of different personalities that "come out" in appropriate context.

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The main idea of the text is that you should not judge or stereotype someone or something, based on a single story (usually a negative story) you know or you heard. Single stories emphasize how we are different rather than how we are similar.

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Smoke Signals clip, "How to Be a Real Indian"

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Smoke Signals clip, "How to Be a Real Indian"

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Our assignments this week ask us to watch or read the following texts:

Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”

Cherrie Moraga, “You’re Not Really Mexican, Are You?”

“Lucy Laney Elementary: African American Vernacular English”

1. After reading or watching these texts answer the following question in one post per text (3 posts total). Put all the information below in one post per text.

Identify the main ideas for each text.

What are there common ideas, themes, messages about identity in each text?

Who is the audience? Who is the author speaking to or writing for? How do you know?

List the first names of your participating group members -- if you don't talk, you don't get credit, my friends. :-)

Use the “connecting” button to link the two posts you are connecting.

Make sure that your group padlet has 4 posts.

2. In the next part of this assignment, draw lines of connections between the texts from  Week 3 (Adichie, Smoke Signals, Lee) (3 posts total).

Add a new post to each video from Week 3 that explains the connection you’re seeing about the discussions of identity there and a discussion of identity in one of Week 4's texts.

List the first names of your participating group members -- if you don't talk, you don't get credit, my friends. :-)

Use the “connecting” button to link the two posts you are connecting.

Make sure that your group padlet has 6 posts.

3. This week, your group will present the 1-2 posts you think are the most insightful (reveal information that other groups might have missed.