From The Book of Unknown Americans:
Summary:
Mayor Toro was a baby when his parents, Rafael and Celia, left Panama for the United States, and he feels
more American than Panamanian. Mayor reflects on why his family became U.S. citizens and has never
visited Panama, despite two attempts. The family plans their first trip back for Rafael's school reunion, but
Rafael cancels it after learning he would be unwelcome there. The next year, they plan another trip but 9/11
prevents them from going. That winter, Rafael tries to ease Celia's homesickness by taking the family to a
beach.
CULTURAL REFERENCES
.copped to (paragraph 4): admitted to something
• broke out (paragraph 7): suddenly and purposefully
began
• roll out the red carpet (paragraph 10): make a special
effort to welcome and make someone feel important
• holier-than-thou (paragraph 21): having the attitude of
being a better person than others
• up-and-coming (paragraph 22): gaining positive
attention and likely to succeed
Connect to the ESSENTIAL QUESTION
The narrator in this excerpt from The Book of Unknown Americans attributes his confusion over his cultural
identity to having been a baby when his family immigrated to the United States from Panama. The difference
between where he and his parents have spent most of their lives has given them a different affinity with both
their native country and their current home. However, the author suggests that the larger events of 9/11 that
the family experiences together in their current home help bridge the gap between their cultural identities
and mixed feelings about being Panamanian Americans, at least momentarily.
Questions
1. How do the narrator's parents' attitudes about their homeland change as time passes?
2. How does the description of the family becoming Americans in paragraph 5 relate to the
ideas the narrator expresses about feeling American in paragraph 3?

1. We can see that as time passes, we see that the narrator's parent's attitudes changes towards their homeland as they felt that they will feel unwelcome in their homeland.

2. We can see that the family has began to have an affinity with their current land, America.

A narrator refers to a character who narrates or explains an event or story to an audience or group of people. The narrator actually narrates what he or she knows about the events taking place. The narrator of a story can be a character in that story or outside the story.

We can see that the narrator's parent's attitudes actually change as time passes. They feel that they will not be welcomed in their homeland.

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Why do good speakers use some of the specialized vocabulary related to a topic? Listeners will believe that the speaker knows a lot about the topic if he or she uses those words. Some listeners will get bored if they don’t hear at least a few words that they don’t know. Specialized vocabulary helps the speaker remember his or her main points.

An 18 year old male generally needs:
O fewer calories than an 18 year old female.
O more calories than an 18 year old female.
O the same amount of calories as an 18 year old female.

2.4.4 Practice (Word roots)


You may choose any three words from list!

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Looking closely at the details, select the answer that properly cites lines from a play.

Read the poem.

The Courage That My Mother Had

by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.

The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.

Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!—
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.

How does the first stanza in "The Courage That My Mother Had" contribute to the poem's meaning?

It reveals that speaker's mother was a cold and emotionless person.

It explains why the speaker's mother is remembered for acts of courage.

It describes the place where the speaker and her mother are from.

It establishes the speaker's respect and longing for her mother's courage.

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Steve is taking chemistry even though he doesn't like it. He doesn't know what several of the words mean. He tends to put off reading the textbook until late at night. In fact, sometimes he can barely stay awake long enough to finish the reading assignment. Select all the correct answers. If you were Steve's advisor, what would you tell Steve to do? (Choose 3.) Look up word meanings. Read when you are not so tired. Get glasses so you can see better. Study with someone who likes chemistry. Reset Next © 2022 Edmentum. All rights reserved.​

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modifications that are done to the essay during rewriting.

Finish the sentence below with the most likely answer:
Second chances they don't ever matter; people never_____.
A. Apologize
B. Change
C. Stop
D. Deserve it

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In the passage, the author makes which of the following assumptions about his audience?

1. What series of laws did the U.S. government pass in the 1920s?

A) laws that encouraged people to immigrate out of the U.S.
B) laws that promoted more healthy food for families
C) laws that limited immigration from certain countries
D) laws that limited the number of times someone could be president

2. What effect did the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 have?
A) It abolished the quota system.
B) it increased the quota system.
C) It changed laws about citizenship.
D) It shut down immigration completely.

3. Read the following sentences.
“One of [the Immigration and Naturalization Act’s] goals was to try to end racial and ethnic discrimination towards certain immigrants. Rather than giving immigrants visas based on their race or ethnicity, these new policies focused on reuniting family members and getting skilled workers into the U.S…

For the first time, a limit was placed on the number of immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, which included Mexico, Central America, and South America.”

What can you conclude about the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 based on this information?

A) It kept race or ethnicity based restrictions in place for immigration to the U.S.
B) It didn’t change anything about the way that people from the Western Hemisphere came to the U.S.
C) It placed restrictions on immigration for people from all countries around the world equally.
D) It placed restrictions on immigration from certain areas of the world, but not based on race or ethnicity.

4. How did the U.S. handle the question of refugee immigration in contrast to standard immigration?

A) The U.S. set a separate number for refugee visas regardless of what area of the world they’re coming from.
B) The U.S. treated the refugee visas the same as the standard immigration visas and limited ones from certain areas.
C) The U.S. decided to ignore the question of refugee visas until 2002, when the government passed new laws.
D) The U.S. only let refugees from certain countries into the country on immigration visas.

Which is true of adjective location? Choose all that apply. Select three options. Adjectives only modify nouns. Adjectives sometimes come after the word they modify and a linking verb. Adjectives are in the opposite part of the sentence from the word they modify. Adjectives come before the word they modify. Adjectives always describe size. ​

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two different Models of Econonomic Systems?

What does it mean to change?

Story

Of Mice and Men

How would you compare the incident with the mouse in the first chapter with the killing of Curley's wife in chapter five. Note similarities and differences between the two

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Complete the sentences with the correct adverb from the box. Write the sentences in your exercise book. warmly sadly hard always suddenly heavily correctly dangerously silently quickly 1 The young man walked from the church after the funeral. 2 The woman sat down without saying a word. 3 I know that all of you will answer the questions and get good grades. 4 The car swerved and knocked over the young child. 5 Ato Tofik received the girl This made her happy. 6 The teacher told the class to work. 7 The boy ran to the chemist to fetch the medicine. 8 It rained on Sunday evening. 9 The girl drove very in town and caused an accident. 10 She goes to visit her grandmother every week.​

modifications that are done to the essay during rewriting.

Which statement BEST describes the passage in terms of how the speaker supports the argument?
A) The speaker uses lots of appeals to logic, quoting statistics and facts to support his point.
B) The speech is full of logical fallacies that attempt to be persuasive but are in fact misleading.
C) The speaker uses a number of rhetorical devices, including figurative language to make an emotional appeal.
D) None of these statements accurately describe this speech in terms of rhetorical strategies and devices used to support the claims.

The conclusion of a speech _____.

A) restates the main idea

B) gives examples of the main idea

C) is an unimportant part of a speech

D) gives the last reason to support an idea

Read the following sentence.
The possibility also exists that all this
interbreeding could lead to new strains of herbicide-
resistant super-weeds.
Which words tell the reader that this sentence
contains subjective language?
could lead
this interbreeding
new strains
also exists