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The tree looks pretty lonely right now.  It's sort of a metaphor for how we began: empty and a little unsure of what "culture" even meant. Now, we should be able to give multiple examples of culture and tell how culture impacts our own knowledge as well as our perspectives. We will be presenting our "learnaments" in class on Thursday.  I'll post an updated picture when it's all decorated with our knowledge. :)

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Please take a picture of your ornament and post it under the appropriate column for your assigned text.  To post, click the plus sign under your text.

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Post a link to the music video or song that you chose for this text, and explain why you chose this song and how it is applies to the text or would improve someone's understanding of the theme.

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Here are the directions and group assignments we went over in class.

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I picked a car because toward the end of the story when they get off the plane they go into a parking garage .

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I chose to pick an airplane because it involves immigrants who are not from the U.S who are aboard an airplane and walking onto U.S soil for the first time.

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I chose this cuz they talk about how she dreams about how her and her sister are brought together on a TV program

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I chose a watermelon to represent my quote because she talks about her family's love for watermelon, but it was taboo to them because of its racial connotation: "The truth is we liked watermelon in our family. But the only time we ate it was at secret moments"

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I chose the airplane going from one country to the other to represent my quote because it shows her traveling to leaving one country to the next

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The picture on my ornament is a cross between a Mexican flag and an American flag and describes how Pat Mora is both Mexican and American. The quote shows how she is both races/ethnicities but is not accepted by either side and she feels like she’s in limbo in between them.  The song we made describes her struggles and how she is both races and ethnicities and belongs to both of them but isn’t accepted by either one https://youtu.be/880Dp6MkgLc

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I chose to design my ornament this way to represent my part of the story, which is when Premila and Santha storm out of the school because all Indian children were accused of cheating and forced to sit in the back of the classroom. I chose this quote because I feel that it accurately portrays my part of the story, and the struggle they went through just to be educated. Lastly, I chose this image to go with my quote because it involves a desk at a school.

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i chose to use a map where it shows how they got lost but people helped them find their way home. It represents how the people in America are just as nice as her father said.

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We picked this song to represent our story “By Any Other Name” because at the end of the story when the teacher accused the Indian children of cheating it was almost as if what the teacher said “made her” walk out of the classroom.

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The flower on the ornament represents the girl in the poem and on the back it has half of anAmerican flag and another half of a Mexican flag symbolizing she’s Mexican American. The song represents the girl being part of both worlds and overcoming it. https://youtu.be/880Dp6MkgLc

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I chose a open door with two friendly Americans waiting on the inside to represent my quote because it shows how the author and her family felt welcomed, despite their cultural differences and lack of english, into their new country with open arms.

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I chose to draw a plate with different food items from her culture that represents her " Having grown up and learn that you are what you eat, I have worked to broaden my horizons and cultivate my taste."

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Olivia- My ornament is made with traditional Indian colors;marigold orange

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Th pictures on my ornament represent the girl's many ethnicities. The cornbread is because she is part Cherokee, the chicken represents her southern blood, and The Beauty and the Beast pictures represent the soundtrack for this story if it was to become a movie because this story is about a dinner party.
"Soundtrack": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7svaeEz2U0

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I chose this quote because I think it represents a large portion of the story and well explains much of the authors emotion throughout the memoir. The picture I chose is meant to represent how it should have been - the two little girls holding hands - but the black and white makes the idea seem distant. I feel like this idea connects to the quote really well.

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I choose a coffe mug and the quote “Will you take tea or coffee?” My mother would ask shyly, at the proud culmination of such a meal”. It shows how small actions can bring happiness to the people who create it. The author explains how bringing a simple recipe to a dinner party shaped how she figured and represented her identity. Our song represents her internal conflict of what race/cultural identity she felt she belonged too. https://youtu.be/F2AitTPI5U0

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I painted with water color with yellow and orange to represent Dee’s vibrant dress that isn’t described when she arrives. This dress and it’s outlandish colors already show the readers that she is much difference than Maggie and Momma. Just the difference in their clothes tells a lot. My quote is “ A dress down to the ground in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun”. I love how simple this is but it still shows so much diversity in how they view their culture.

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The text is about a family who may be very differnt from each other but are still family and share the same culture. This song really fits the text because even though they have different views and ways to express their cultural background they’re still family. Also one of the lyrics in the song is “ i got all my sisters and me” this goes with Alice Walker’s belief in “womanism”. In the documentary we watched she talked a lot about sisterhood. You can see that a lot in the text. Sisterhood is a topic she explores a lot in her writing.

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“There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round holding the shutters on the outside.”

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The I reason I choose a yin and yang symbol is because it symbolizes difference. In the poem, the author talks about the struggles of being biracial and just over all different.

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https://youtu.be/rAiUO1Jjiwchttps://youtu.be/rAiUO1Jjiwc The reason we picked this song is because it’s basically the poem if it were to be a song. In the song he talks about feeling alone because of the discrimination from both or his races. That’s the exact same thing the whole poem is about, the author feels alone and like a misfit because of her being biracial

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We chose 'Send Me On My Way' by Rusted Root because the narrator doesn't want to go to school with her mom and wants to be sent of on her own to handle it by herself.

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Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way (Official Music Video)

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I chose to do the quilt because it was sort of the turning point of the story. Dee was asking for all of these things like the butter churn and the table. Mama finally said no to the quilt.

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I drew a music book with both of the songs Ni Kan played. At the end of the story when she realizes that “Pleading Child” and “Perfectly Contented” were two halves of the same song. My quote was “I had played at the recital. “Pleading Child” It was on the left hand page. It looked more difficult than I remembered.” “ It was called “Perfectly Contented” It had a lighter melody but with the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy.” I realized they were two halves of the same song”. When Ni Kan was younger she didn’t show her culture and when she grew up she does and she became “Contented” with her moms actions.

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The quotes I chose are “ When he cooks,which is not often,the results are distinctly southern” and “Do I have an ethnicity? I wondered. It was like suddenly discovering you might not have a belly button” although these quotes talk about two completely different things I believe they’re both related to the same topic. These quotes show that the author tried to tie herself to certain aspects of her culture that she believed she was because of her parents. But in the second quote, she was really having a hard time defining her culture for herself. So for my ornament, I chose a mason jar. The mason jar represents the blending of her southern roots and other ethnicities. It also represents the food aspect of Ethnic Hash, which was her finding an hors d’oeuvre for the dinner party.

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The design of my ornament is to show the people coming to claim their new lives in American from Mexico. As they're holding hands, its showing acceptance of their new home. My quote is "The latest arrive at Los Angeles International Airport are ready to claim their new lives." https://youtu.be/FuDcnkCh1nI We chose this song because our interpretation of this story is new beginnings and starting over not staying in the past no matter how dark it but also not forgetting it either.

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This Ornament is a loose/rough representation of the world. The heart in North America represents the author and how her "heart" belongs in America while the heart in India belongs to the author's sister, Mira, and how her "heart" belongs in India. I chose this quote because it reveals the differences in the feelings of the two sisters about living in America. I chose this as my symbol because it shows the differences in where they stand regarding their yearnings of citizenship.

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I designed my ornament the way I did to imitate a not so promised land. The bright sun can blind you by how dark the city actually is and I also have little lights shining in the darkness to show people starting their new beginnings and how theyare making their way up to where they want to be in their new lives.

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In the story, “Two Ways to Belong in America” there are two sisters who moved from India to America. One sister, Bharati, lives a happy life in America while the other sister, Mira, goes on to become a preschool teacher and tries to stay content, but still feels an attachment to India that she doesn’t to America. I chose to use pencils to represent how Mira was a teacher and decided to use and split the flags to represent her attachment to both countries. I used the quote, “ I feel some kind of a irrational attachment to India that I don’t to America.. America spoke to me - I married it -“ to put more emphasis on just how strongly the sisters feel towards both countries.

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I chose to put America on my ornament because my text is all about her move to the United States. Also, I put cleaning supplies (spray bottle, sponge, broom, etc.) around the US because she states how she admired how clean and nice America was and that represents the image she had of the place she was moving and how she felt about it.

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I had Legal Alien by Pat Mora and I drew the main character of how I think she felt was feeling during the entire poem. Even when I was reading this I felt like shs was very upset about her situation. My quote from the poem was " Their eyes say 'You may zpeak spanish but you're not like me.'" I think she felt that she was being excluded because she wasn't completely Spanish or American.

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We chose this song because it talks about home and the importance of belonging. The lyric "I'm gonna make this place your home" goes with the author's objective to make a home out of America.

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Watch Home by Phillip Phillips online at vevo.com. Discover the latest music videos by Phillip Phillips on Vevo.

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My ornament includes a picture of more or less

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For my ornament, I chose to make it in the shape of a rocket, to symbolize moving forward, into the a place that we don’t know much about but seems promising and hopeful. Each of the little fins on the bottom of the rocket are flags that were mentioned in the text, as if to say that they all are apart of the same world. For the quote, I chose the first paragraph of the story, it’s too long to post but the quote can be found on Springboard page 63.. This quote accurately describes the emotions felt by the immigrants as they come into America.

As for the soundtrack, I chose the song “Space Junk” by Wang Chung, https://youtu.be/b5Xfch1oERc , you have to be somewhat imaginative here with the lyrics of the song. Certain lines can be applied to the story, for example, the “Space Junk” said through the song can represent the lies or beliefs that were immigrants head and the line “and it’s bringing me to you” could be used to represent how immigrants think America is this amazing and great place so they want to come to have a better life.

I didn’t intend for the entire project to have a space theme that just kind of happened. I’d also like to apologize for the quality of the ornament, it wasn’t rushed I just suck at art...

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I chose this ornament because the section I had talked about how Dee really loved the quilts and how she really wanted them.

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The quote is hard to see on the picture, but it’s states, “ She seemed entranced by the music”. This statement, in my opinion, represents how her mother was so focused on how she wanted her child’s to be successful that when ignored her daughters feelings. Her mother was so entranced by the music and the fame that she forgot that her daughter still needed a mother ”appreciates” her. My other quote was ask , “ Why don’t you like me the ay i a am

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I chose magazine clip-outs to respresent the story because she would read dozens of magazines for her mother , curls because of her attempts at curly hair , a world map because her mother had her study world maps , scissors to represent her going to the barber school , and money + change to represent the money her mother made her count for math . The quote I used is, “‘Of course, you can be a prodigy, too,’ my mother said when I was nine.”

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I put this on my ornament because it shows how people assume things based on where you came from or what you look like. I drew a test because in the quote it talks about how her teacher put her and the other Indians in the back and a desk in between each one because indians cheat.

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I used a star to symbolize the switch to American culture/life and I have a quote stating " We would endure our two years in America, secure our degrees, then return to marry groom of our fathers choosing. " It shows the attribute of sticking to tradition to be highly upheld in Indian culture and the fact that they also travel out of their home to earn a respected education is out of normality and trying to break out of the cultural " shell " that generations have followed.

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I chose my quote because it represents the way the English treated any foreign people that came in by trying to change them, because they think English id better; for example, in this case, changing their names

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My quote is from Jing-mei’s mom who told Jing-mei, “You have natural talent... You just not trying.” I chose this quote because it ties in with Jing-mei’s discovery at the end of the story when she sees how easy her piano lessons actually were. This shows how her perspective has changed since she was a child. My ornament is an origami piano with a crack down the middle. This represents the resolution to the conflict of the story once Jing-mei reconditioned the piano after her mom died.

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My quote states “ But my mother’s expression was what devestated me: A quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything.” Which following her performance at the talent show where she had messed up, she had taken the initiative to stand up to her mom and tell her how she had really felt about playing the piano. Which saying this , had allowed her to see how her mom had lost all hope for herto be the “star prodigy” that she had wanted her to be.

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I have a quote saying "If America wants to play the manipulative game, I'll play it too." This shows that Mira's not going to be weak and she is gonna stand up for herself and get her citizenship. My picture is of a finger puppet to show the manipulation going on, as well as the way that she worded it as it seems childish playing "games."

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We chose this song because it represents how society is about forgein people .

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Ian's first release; the sad complications of a young interracial couple. This was very controversial subject matter in the 60's. Artist: Janis Ian Album: Society's Child (1967) Lyrics: Come to my door, baby, Face is clean and shining black as night. My mother went to answer you know That you looked so fine.

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from Autumn , Kyra , Eli , and Tia .

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We chose "That's Not My Name" by the Ting TIngs becuase in the story, they are given new "pretty English names" and they don't like it.  The narrator, Santha, doesn't even remember her new name, Cynthia, when she is asked her name in class.  The name change was both embarassing and insensitive.

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The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (Official Video)

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"Piano man" nathan hokett, Aaron Lawson Albert Turner, Marissa pate

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"Piano man" nathan hokett, Aaron Lawson Albert Turner, Marissa pate

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The story is about thr mother wanting her daughter to e famous, but the daughter does not have the drive or even want to be famous.

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Billy Joel - Piano Man (Official HD Video)

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Out group chose this video because it was the two songs Ni Kan played in the story.

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I chose to make a cellphone and put my quote as a text notification. I chose this due to the fact that my section of the story was about the mother and daughter getting lost and a neighbor coming out of her house and letting them use her phone.

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We chose Airplanes because it talks about airplanes and in the story, foreign passengers are on the plane.

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Airplanes - B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams [Lyrics]

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I picked a quilt, this is because the end of the story is all about quilts. The main characters fight for custody of the quilts and it becomes a big deal. Also, on the outside, quotes line the ends showing the importance of the quilt.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyJXeJXFcI

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I chose a camera because when dee steps out the car she takes a bunch of pictures

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I choose my ornament to be a watermelon because the author describes how a watermelon was meant for a special occasion in her family. On the back of my ornament I have the quote: "Having grown up and learned you that you are what you eat, I have worked to broaden my horizons and cultivate my tastes" because it describes how much the little things affected her with her culture.

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My quote is “I am the way my daughter would want me to be.” My ornament signifies family and kindness. My quote is pretty much referring to culture of course, how the daughter and the mom have two different perspectives in different things. The culture that the daughter wants contradicts somewhat towards the mom, but in the end family is important and the mom wants the best for her, which means more.

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The TV is “Two Kinds” represents my part because it shi s hoe Ni Kan mother got Ni Kan to play the piano. Playing the piano was the way she was going to become a prodigy. I chose this quote because Ni kan’s mother was watching TV when the little girl started playing piano. I chose a TV as my symbol because that is how Ni Kan started playing the piano; her mother was watching the girl play.

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I chose to do the two sisters in their different state, along with the two different flags to show how the two sisters differ. While one sister loves America and has adopted some of the culture as her own, the other sister prefers her own Indian style, which she grew up with. It shows that even in your own family, culture can differ.

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My ornament consists of the old house and the limousine. My quote was “She’s dead,” Wangero said. “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me”. I chose my quote to show that once Dee had changed her name, Dee’s culture identity changed as well.

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I chose these quotes because they show that when she was younger she didnt appreciate the benches or the butter churn when she was younger but as she has gotten older she has begun to appreciate them more because it represents her childhood and culture

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I chose these quotes because they show that she is more appreciative of the benches her father made and the butter churn that was wittled by her uncle because as she has gotten older they remind her of her childhood and culture

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I chose these quotes because they show that as she has gotten older she has started appreciating the benches her father made and the wittled butter churn more that when she was younder

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Country Road - John Denver
Symbolic in the internal struggle that Mira faces with returning home and even states how " the place where she belongs "

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Country Road - John Denver
It symbolizes the struggle that the main character faces in deciding how she belongs in society and where she really wants to belong.

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Shirley Temple (Eli, Autumn, Tia, & Kyra)

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Shirley Temple (Eli, Autumn, Tia, & Kyra)

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We chose this song because of the attempt of her mother to turn Jing Mei into an “asian shirley temple”.

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pd3 Samantha and Madison's song explanation

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pd3 Samantha and Madison's song explanation

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we chose Disney's a Whole New World for the soundtrack because the family they moved from half way across the world to america which is their new world.