Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario by Rashida Betts https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh Identify and describe how the nonfiction signposts are used as you read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey: numbers and stats, word gaps, contrasts and contradictions, extreme or absolute language, and quoted words. en-us 2018-12-10 19:53:06 UTC 2025-11-04 16:28:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Numbers & Stats cfraser6 https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313993287 "An estimated 48,000 children who enter the United States from Central America and Mexico each year [do so] illegally and without either of their parents."  This is staggering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> 2018-12-12 18:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313993287 Extreme Language https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313993517 Nazario uses extreme language like "terror" to describe how Enrique will feel when he realizes his mother has left. In another example Nazarrio writes, "he is so shy it is crushing," to describe Enrique's dependence on his mother. 

Taken as a whole, this extreme language emphasizes the Enrique's emotional state as well as creating empathy for Enrique in the reader.]]> 2018-12-12 18:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313993517 Numbers and Stats https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313993905 "Most of the Central Americans go to reunite with a parent...75% are looking for their mothers"

placing this number/stat after such an emotional narrative account shows the reader that this is not an isolated incident/story, which makes the reader becomes even more emotionally involved ]]> 2018-12-12 18:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313993905 Contrast and Contradictions jason_flanagan https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313994072 Lourdes speaks of feeding, playing and caring for a child not her own. The contrast here stirs emotions in her; so much so that she quits.

We can use this signpost to discuss the impact of separation has on the characters as well as all who take the journey.]]> 2018-12-12 18:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/313994072 https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/346501904 2019-03-29 11:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rashida_betts/7kmd9df5xuhh/wish/346501904