Essay
Read or reread the essays and poems from this unit:
Personal Growth
- On Being a Trans Woman, and Giving Up Makeup, by Meredith Talusan
- Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained for, by Jazmine Hughes
- The Crossing, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- blessing the boats, by Lucille Clifton
Linguistic Identity
- How to Tame a Wild Tongue, by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan
- Professional Spanish Knocks at the Door, by Elizabet Velasquez
Review the assignment for Essay .
Choose your essay topic: personal growth or language identity.Brainstorm about your topic and generate 3 ideas/examples that you could write about as part of your essay.
