![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that she has chosen Julia Alvarez suggests her allegiance to her Dominican heritage. When she graduates from high school, she wonders what name she will use as an adult. In high school, she accepts her nicknames, believing they demonstrate her popularity, and she is uncomfortable when friends treat her name (and her) as if she were exotic. At first Alvarez dislikes hearing her family name mispronounced and is uncomfortable when she is called Judy or Judith. Text-Based Question How does Julia Alvarez feel when she first comes to the United States and hears her name mispronounced? How does she feel when she is first called Judy? How does she feel about her name when she graduates from high school? Describe Alvarez’s changing thoughts about her name. Simple word choice and sentence structure May sound like conversation Shorter sentencesĢ5 21. Tone Factors that contribute to tone: word choiceĢ3 Formal Writing More complicated word choice and sentence structure Tone The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience or subject.Ģ2 20. You can check facts by using different resources. You can check facts by using different resourcesġ9. A fact is information that must be _.ġ9 18. identified incorrectly misunderstoodġ8 17. She has many relatives, and their relationships are complicated.ġ2 11. How does Julia Alvarez describe her extended family? Alvarez mentions a change in attitude toward “ethnicity” in the United States during the 1960s Who were Americans more willing to accept after this change? People with a dark complexion.ġ1 10. They want to be sure to understand the fast-spoken English.ġ0 9. Why do Alvarez’s family members sit in the first row at her graduation ceremony? What does Alvarez think about her “new names” after she has been in the United States for a while? She wonders whether she should correct her teachers and friends when they use them.ĩ 8. What factor would likely contribute to the tone? humorĨ 7. Why does Alvarez’s full name interest her friends?ħ 6. What would be the best way to prove this fact? Look on a map.Ħ 5. Julia Alvarez writes that the Dominican Republic is in the Caribbean. What do Alvarez’s nicknames Jules and Hey Jude show?ĥ 4. What does Alvarez think about her last name when she first arrives in New York from the Dominican Republic? It has a beautiful sound.Ĥ 3. My mother often told the story of how she had almost changed my sister’s name in the hospital.2 How can Julia Alvarez’s family best be described?ģ 2. We had been born in New York City when our parents had first tried immigration and then gone back “home,” too homesick to stay. Ironically, although she had the most foreign-sounding name, she and I were the Americans in the family. My older sister had the hardest time getting an American name for herself because Mauricia did not translate into English. JUDY ALCATRAZ, the name on the “Wanted” poster would read. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on Sunday afternoons old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from and leave me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. “ You know what your friend Shakespeare said, ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.” My family had gotten into the habit of calling any famous author “my friend” because I had begun to write poems and stories in English class.īy the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. But my mother argued that it didn’t matter. I wondered if I shouldn’t correct my teachers and new friends. It took me a while to get used to my new names. But at school I was Judy or Judith, and once an English teacher mistook me for Juliet. I, her namesake, was known as Hoo-lee-tah at home. While we have curated a list of videos and other texts for you to use to teach this short story, we also recognize that you're a busy. We moved into our new apartment building, the super called my father Mister Alberase, and the neighbors who became mother’s friends pronounced her name Jew-lee-ah instead of Hoo-lee-ah. Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez is a personal narrative essay in which the author combines several personal experiences to drive home a central theme that a person’s name is integral to one’s identity. trilling my tongue for the drumroll of the r, All-vab-rrr-es! How could anyone get Elbures out of that orchestra of sound?Īt the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, “Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up and down. I was too afraid we wouldn’t be let in if I corrected the man’s punctuation, but I said our name to myself, opening my mouth wide for the organ blast of a. My father shook his head no, and we were waved through. Materials: GRAMMAR AND LITERATURE BOOKS IN RED PEN HIGHLIGHTER HOMEWORK GRAMMAR PG. Immigration, the officer asked my father, Mister Elbures, if he had anything to declare. When we arrived in New York City, our names changed almost immediately. ![]()
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