Just Like Family

In the story "The Other Son" author David Rice introduced us to a Mexican American family who had a live-in maid named Catalina. Throughout the story we saw many examples of how Catalina was more than just a maid. She considered them family and they did the same.

You have your choice of two writing assignments for this blog posting:

1) Describe somebody in your life that you would describe as an aunt, uncle or cousin who really is not. Explain why you consider them to be family.


2) Describe details from the story that show us evidence that Catalina and the family consider her to be part of the family.

The Shrine of Don Pedrito Jaramillo

"Sugar Cane Fire" - I Am Poetry

Now that we've read "Sugar Cane Fire" by David Rice, I'd like you to pretend that you are one of the characters from the story and write a poem using the site below.

You could decide to be Romero, Veronica or Annette.

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/iampoem.htm

When you have finished, copy and paste the poem into a blog posting. Then, I would like you to read your classmates poems and leave a comment for at least three classmates.