Lesson Title: AmericaBody, Heart, and Soul: America Is in the Heart Course and Grade: American Studies, 11th

Generalization: The main ideas here are that the lives of Americans are often undervalued and exploited as labor. Learnin Tar ets: Facts: Bulosan was a Filipino-American writer who came to Seattle in 1 !", wor#ed at several low-s#illlevel $obs, and was exploited b% other Filipinos, who he could not believe had become so de&raded b% their livin& conditions'he stru&&led to rise above this and to live a human(e) life. *ocabular%: +ino% (Filipino wor#er, or, bo%) S#ills: Reading ,A-./s: 1.1a use lan&ua&e structure to understand readin& materials includin& sentence structure, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and simple abbreviations 1.1b inte&rate appropriate readin& strate&ies to adapt readin& to different t%pes of text 1.1c readil% use a variet% of strate&ies to comprehend words and ideas in complex texts includin& selfcorrectin&, re-readin&, readin&-on, and slowin& down 1.1d understand and appl% readin& strate&ies includin& word ori&ins, word roots, prefixes, suffixes0 ma#in& predictions0 and verif%in& and revisin& understandin& while readin& 1.1a examine and increase vocabularies relevant to different contexts, cultures, and communities 1.!b read at different speeds, usin& scannin& and2or careful readin& as appropriate 1.3a identif% literar% devices (exa&&eration, iron%, humor, dialo&ue, devices that develop characteri4ation, tension, and mood) 1.3c anal%4e literar% elements (plot, characters, settin&, theme, point of view, conflict, resolution) 1.1a criticall% compare, contrast, and connect ideas within and amon& a broad ran&e of texts !e"elo#ment o$ Assessments: *erbal, 56A, discussion. %aterials: -esson plan, copies of the Bulosan excerpt (enou&h for ever%one), pencils, paper, SmartBoard. Antici#atory Set: 7ave students envision themselves in the +hilippines wantin& to leave and &o to America in the 1 !"/s. Conte&t and 'ur#ose: 8Toda% we are dealin& with a piece published in the 1 3"/s but set in the 1 !"/s. 9arlos Bulosan, a Filipino American writer, came to Seattle in 1 !", see#in& his American dream, and found, li#e An4ia :e4iers#a, author of 8America and ;,< who had come over earlier to our opposite coastline, that the realit% and the dream are worlds apart, especiall% for uns#illed laborer immi&rants who loo# =forei&n./ A&ain, the theme of havin& to start at the bottom and wor# one/s wa% up emer&es, as does the theme of assimilated immi&rants who are onl% American in the shallowest sense and who, a&ain, exploit the later immi&rants from their own same countr% in much the same wa% as the Americani4ed +olish-.ussian famil% exploited :e4iers#a. >ur primar% &oals have to do with pic#in& up on and identif%in& the themes and examples in each of these pieces that relate bac# to wor#s we have read earlier this %ear, and tal#in& about the use of iron% a bit, as well.< Instruction: .ead short bio&raph% of Bulosan, read the excerpt, and tal# about wh% the people he met exploited him, what his emotional reactions were, how he coped, what he still hoped ... discuss the whole piece.

!iscussion (uestions on the )&cer#t $rom Bulosan*s America Is in the Heart ?hat were Bulosan/s expectations of what America would be before he arrived here@ ?hen he first saw Seattle from the boat pullin& in to shore, how did he see Seattle@ ?hat happened to Bulosan and his companions when the% &ot a room at a Filipino hotel@ To whom did Bulosan/s friend Aarcelo appeal for financial help@ ?h% would that person not be able to help Aarcelo or the rest of them@ ?hen the hotel proprietor comes into the room and the% can/t pa% him, what does he do@ ?hat is Ba#e/s attitude about the %oun& men@ The proprietor sa%s to Ba#e that he/s bro#en in babies on the plantations of 7awaii before, and he can brea# in these %oun& men, too. Then Ba#e tells them the%/re wor#in& for him. ?hen Bulosan &oes to &et his suitcase, what does the hotel proprietor tell him@ To what destination do the% head off@ ?hat will the% be doin&@ For how much mone% were the% each sold into slave labor@ ?hat were the conditions li#e in the fish cannin& factories in Alas#a@ Cue to the dim li&ht and the dan&erous machiner%, what happened to one of the wor#ers in the canner% who was further up the line from Bulosan, so swiftl% that he did not even cr% out@ ?hat did the contractors and companies do to #eep their emplo%ees from formin& unions to improve their wor#in& conditions@ ?hat did the Filipino wor#ers do to relax and unwind when the% did have time off from wor#@ ?ith whom did the Filipino men pla% baseball, aside from each other@ This would be an example of what part of the continuum of immi&rants ad$ustin& to a new nation@ ?hat would the Filipino men and Dative Alas#an women often do durin& their baseball &ames@ ?hen -a Belle comes bac# and accuses 9onrado of bein& the father of her child, and he denies it and she &oes and tells the compan% official, what does the compan% official tell him he is now obli&ated to do@ ?hat does the compan% official sa% 9onrado will &et if he has four more children before his time is up@ ?h% do %ou suppose the compan% wants to encoura&e their wor#ers to have more children@ ?ho unexpectedl% and surprisin&l% rescues 9onrado from his predicament@ ?h% does -a Belle probabl% accept +aulo in place of 9onrado, accordin& to Bulosan@ 7ow much mone% does Bulosan end up ma#in& after all his wor#@ ?h% does he end up with onl% thirteen dollars@

?hen Bulosan &oes up into a Aanila dance hall, what is the =scene/ he encounters there@ ?hat is one of the women doin& to Aarcelo, of which he is unaware at first@ ?hat strate&% did Aarcelo use to monopoli4e his dancin& partner/s time and not &ive her up@ ?hen one of his friends points out to him that she/s cheatin& him, what happens then@ 7ow does the level of violence and the level of chaos increase@ ?hat does Bulosan do0 how does he react@ To where does Bulosan &o for wor#@ ?hat will he be doin&@ ?h% did the Filipino orchard wor#ers feel li#e the% had to stic# to&ether@ ?hat were some of the extreme demonstrations of discrimination and racism that had happened in the :a#ima *alle% to Filipino wor#ers@ ?ith which white people do some of the Filipino wor#ers associate, and what do the% do@ ?hat corruption do we discover &oin& on at the orchard@ ?hen the boo##eeper sa%s he/s &oin& to &o after +ae4, what does Bulio do@ 7ow does Bulosan react to this@ Coes he &ive up hope of findin& the America of his dreams@ ;n what wa%s are Bulosan/s experiences similar to those of An4ia :e4iers#a@ Closure: 8Than# %ou for %our participation.< H+: Done. ;f need to fill time, be&in with ??;; era poetr% or a writin& exercise where the% are now an American soldier on an island in the +acific durin& the war'about what would the% be thin#in&, what would the% be feelin&, wishin&@ >r have them compose hai#us (&ive =em identities: white soldier with &irlfriend bac# home0 a &a% soldier who has to pretend he is not0 a blac# soldier in a se&re&ated unit0 a Bapanese-American soldier in the 331nd) ; fear ; hope ; wish ; pra% ; see ; hear ; want