Welcome, �Have your binder & play out

Last day to submit missing work/quizzes: Thursday @ 2 PM

Have your blue vocab chart (from two weeks ago) out & something to write with

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Extra handouts of AoW’s are on the front round table. If you’re missing something, work on assignments during class.

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Agenda:

1. Journal Write
2. Vocab
3. Zoot Suit Movie

Journal Write: Calo

Pachucas and Pachucos created words whose meanings changed everyday. What are some words that you have invented or use with family and friends, which are not considered part of a specific standard language (slang)? Describe & explain.

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Vocabulary #4 - Chart due Friday, Quiz on Monday�Complete in the second half of your last vocab chart

1. Nativism
2. Bato
3. Ruca
4. Ventriloquism
5. Inadmissible
6. Sabes que
7. Yellow Journalism
8. Capital Punishment
9. Repartee
10. Xenophobia

Vocabulary

1. Nativism: An opposition to the presence of immigrants or the flow of immigrants into one’s home country
2. Bato: Spanish for homeboy
3. Ruca: Spanish for girlfriend/chick
4. Ventriloquism: Artform where a person changes/hides their voice so that it appears that a puppet or doll is speaking
5. Inadmissible: (Especially of evidence in court) not allowed into the trial

Vocabulary

6. Sabes que: Spanish for “you know what?”�7. Yellow Journalism: Media, news reporting based on extreme overaggeration and sensationalism �8. Capital Punishment: The death penalty �9. Repartee: Conversation or speech characterized by quick or witty responses �10. Xenophobia: Extreme, irrational fear or dislike of people from other countries

Character Chart:

Analyze El Pachuco’s character. Find quotes for each corresponding box. For the last box, analyze the quotes. What do the quotes say or show about El Pachuco? *Sub will collect

Zoot Suit Questions #2 on a separate sheet of paper - Sub will collect

1. George, the defendant's’ lawyer, says: “The first murder case I ever tried; & won...was for a Filipino...I was paid exactly three dollars & fifty cents…” (41).
2. Why does George argue that the defendants should be allowed to change their hair/clothes? Explain. What does the judge’s decision reveal about the trial?
3. Henry claims he did not commit the crime. Do you think he committed the murders? Explain with evidence from the text.
4. What do you make of the reporter, Alice? Assess her character: do you find her interest in the case trustworthy? Explain. What does Alice mean when she calls Henry a, “classic social victim” (Valdez 50).
5. Find an instance where Valdez comments on gender in society. Explain what the scene is saying about gender and/or expectations for pacuhos v. pachucas.
6. Alice tells Henry, “We’re all in jail, Henry. Some of us just don’t know it.” Interpret and analyze the line.
7. Choose a character in Zoot Suit that stands out to you. What about their character or story resonates/intrigues you? Explain.

Happy Friday!

Have your binder & Zoot Suit out

Agenda:

1. Journal Write
2. Zoot Suit
1. Dialectical Journal

Yellow Journalism - Fake News

Journal Write: Yellow Journalism

What is yellow journalism? Explain why it is problematic. Analyze the effects it could have on serious issues, like, the presidential election or the Sleepy Lagoon Trial. Describe a real life example or somewhere you’ve noticed it in the play.

Open to p. 54�Jose Diaz

Zoot Suit

FIESTA!

Monday, April 2nd �Bring food (something in the spirit of the unit)

Extra credit if you dress up like a character from the play!

Dialectical Journal - Due April 7th in class

Purpose: Find & analyze meaningful quotes for your Zoot Suit in class essay.

1. You must use all sentence starters at least one.
2. Use them to analyze the quotes that you choose. Choose short, “meaty” quotes to unpack.
3. Quotes on left, analysis on right.