Please post your discussion questions for Thursday's class on the "Aria" and "The Achievement of Desire" chapters of Hunger of Memory here. Make sure to read over your classmates' questions before you come to class.
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Sydney Bunshaft
4/9/2014 12:01:58 pm
Did his siblings feel the same way as him? He seems to feel so isolated at first, but they are in the same situation that he is, with school and his family in two different worlds.
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Marielle Cottrell
4/10/2014 12:44:48 am
Has he been able to connect with other scholarship children like him and share his experiences with them? He continues to talk about the book about scholarship children, but did he actually connect with anyone else?
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Netisha Butler
4/10/2014 12:46:22 am
I disagree with his comment about children not being able to use their native language at school because it takes away the intimacy of family language. Is a country becoming ever more diverse do think schools will just only be limited to one language (besides teaching in English more broader such as interacting in different languages)?
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Alex Vsn Gorp
4/10/2014 12:49:46 am
Perhaps he will get to this later in the book, but I am wondering what motivated him to work as hard as he did to make a better life for himself.
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Hillary Schlosser
4/10/2014 01:21:42 am
Do you think the author would have had a different childhood experience if his teacher's taught to him specifically in spanish?
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Lily Ha
4/10/2014 01:27:32 am
Language may have just been one barrier between him and his family. Could there have been other reasons for him feeling distanced from his family?
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Mark Kravitz
4/10/2014 01:31:21 am
How would 'Aria' be written differently had this piece been a biography instead of an autobiography?
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Gabriella Meier
4/10/2014 01:49:13 am
Do you think Rodriguez's bilingual education destroyed the separation between Spanish and English?
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Kiana Davi
4/10/2014 02:00:00 am
How does the difference between private and public language make that big of difference in a child's learning capabilities? Is this true for all bilingual children? What if the roles were reversed an English was his private language and teachers spoke Spanish at school? Would this have the same effect?
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Hunter Thomson
4/10/2014 02:16:05 am
How might the language barrier continue to strain relations with his family?
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Arkin A.
4/10/2014 02:27:58 am
I wonder if at any point Richard's parents felt a sense of guilt having Richard and their other children enter a school system where they needed to learn English, as opposed to flourishing in their native language of spanish?
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Jessica Bertram
4/10/2014 02:31:38 am
Why is it about new languages that causes our entire being to tense up and strain when speaking?
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David F
4/10/2014 02:53:17 am
In what ways did the language separation motivate him into making a better life for himself?
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Destiny Thomas
4/10/2014 03:01:09 am
In what way, does the narrator think that speaking Spanish in school will "change" his home environment? For the better or worse?
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Ben Murray
4/10/2014 03:05:44 am
Rodriguez talks about the language barrier he suffered through as a child and the discrepancies it caused him both in school and at home with his family. Do these changes that immigrants go through ultimately benefit or hinder their life goals?
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