Welcome to De Anza!
Agenda
• Is anyone not on the official roll? The last day to
add is Saturday, and the last day for in-state
students to drop with a refund is Saturday.
• America is in the Heart
– Who has a paper copy?
– Has anyone started reading?
• Reading Journal 1
• Homework
America is in the Heart
•
•
•
•
Part One: 3-93
Part Two: 97-189
Part Three: 193-261
Part Four: 265-327
• Finish up to the end of Part Two by next Thursday
Questions for AIH
• Part I
• Write down the page numbers for the pages that
are relevant for answering the following
questions.
• How did the narrator’s family lose their land?
• What caused the narrator to travel abroad?
• What lead the narrator to come to the US?
• What circumstances (political, legal, economic)
enabled the narrator to travel?
• What expectations did the narrator have before
he moved to the US?
Questions for AIH
• Part II
• Write down the page numbers for the pages that
are relevant for answering the following
questions.
• What is the narrator’s opinion of other Filipinos?
This is a very complicated question.
• What is “America” to the narrator? Again, this is
very complicated.
• What is the narrator’s opinion of non-Filipinos in
the US?
Prep for Reading Journal 1
• In your first reading journal you will write about
the history of your own family during the period
covered in America is in the Heart.
• For a few minutes write down notes about your
family from the period 1918-1942. Where were
they? What were they doing?
Reading Journal 1
• Some historical context for America is in the Heart
• Pre-1492: Boom in spice production in Southeast Asia
• 1565: First permanent Spanish settlement in the
Philippines
• 1896-1898: Philippine Revolution
• 1899-1902: Philippine American War
• 1914-1918: World War I
• 1929: Stock Market crash, beginning of the Great
Depression
• 1937: World War II begins in China
• 1941: Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Reading Journal 1
• The first reading journal assignment is posted online.
• Do not leave today until you have posted the first reading
journal.
• In order to post you need to have a google account. If
necessary, create a google account today. Create your
google account before you write your reading journal.
• Make sure that you have a copy of your reading journals.
Sometimes there are bugs in google’s blogger, and
comments sometimes get erased while people are trying
to post.
Homework
• Turn in your travel narrative.
• If you are not officially enrolled in the course then see
me.
• Do not leave until you have posted your first reading
journal.
• Finish Part One and Part Two of America is in the
Heart before next Thursday. You should read up to
the middle of Part Two before Tuesday.