Entry Questions
Instructions:
Pick one question and one person to report back.
.What things happen in the Dominican Republic that allow Yahaira and Camino to bond and what are some of the tensions between them?
.How do they deal with acknowledging the privileges that many times come with living, studying, and making money in the diaspora?
.Describe Zoila’s process of reflection regarding Camino and her rights as Yano’s daughter?
Oral/slide presentations
Wrapping Up
Describe how Elizabeth Acevedo uses the last confrontation with El Cero as a battle between women and patriarchal violence. (Pages 384-390)
What is the novel’s final conceptualization of (the mother)land? (Pages 416-117)
Extra-credit opportunity with a 250-word reflection: