Welcome to De Anza!
Agenda
• Reading Journal 1
• America is in the Heart
• Homework
Reading Journal 1
• Grading: If you have already posted the journal you get
full credit. Everyone who posted the journals did a good
job. I hope that you were able to talk to people to try to
piece together the stories.
• See me after class if you have not yet posted the journal.
Reading Journal 1
• Movement across national borders is common to almost
all of the journals.
• The majority of people in this class had families in
formerly-colonized countries.
– One exception is China. However, China’s social structure and
economic relationships resembled other places that were
colonized, including Vietnam, Korea, India, and the Philippines.
• A tiny ruling class (political and economic elites) who are more accountable to
elites from other countries than they are to the people in their own country.
• A tiny group of big landlords.
• A small group focused on domestic production.
• A small group of professionals, civil servants, and medium-sized business
owners.
• A large group of laborers and small merchants.
• The overwhelming majority of the people involved in agriculture (peasants).
Reading Journal 1
• In some ways, AIH describes the world of your
grandparents/great-grandparents.
– The novel is by someone of their generation.
– However, the story is told from the perspective of someone from
the working class who has a peasant background.
America is in the Heart
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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 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?
America is in the Heart
• Take about five minutes to collect your thoughts on
America is in the Heart. Flip through the part you have
read, and if you have not finished Part I then flip through
the part of Part I that you have not read.
• Stick to Part I. We will begin to discuss Part II Thursday.
• An example: 26, 58
• Write down page numbers for passages you have
questions about. Try to put the question into words, and
write it down.
• We will break into groups in a few minutes to discuss
your questions.
America is in the Heart
• Break up into groups of about five.
• Have one or two people in your group volunteer
passages and questions to open up to the class.
• For some of you, your questions might be
answered in your small groups and it will not be
necessary to bring the question to the whole
class.
• Type the page number and question for your
group on the next slide.
America is in the Heart
• Why did the narrator stop going to school
for the first time? 49
• What is the narrator’s opinion of his life as a
peasant pgs. 38,65
• What is Allos’ fathers opinion of education? Pg22
• What motivate Allo’s to leave his home and his
family behind? Pg 63-64
• Why was Macario the only one able to finish
school? Pg. 15
• Is there a similarity when the narrator is told that
something precious was lost? Pg 51
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?
Homework
• Finish Part One and Part Two of America is in the
Heart before Thursday.
• See me if you have not posted your reading journal
or if you have not finished your travel narrative.