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Task 1. Create Graphic Organizer. If this is the first genre you study, you will need to create a graphic organizer to serve as your cultural/historical framework. For more specific guidelines, refer to Stage I, Strategy 1, in Chapter 1: La narrativa.
Task 2. Enter Information.
Task 3. Make Mental Connections. Make note of any writers, poets, and dramatists you have studied already and their relationship to Rosario Castellanos. Are there any similarities in their styles or in the topics they write about? What are the differences?
Task 1. Activate Background Knowledge. Go back to the first task in the I. Introducción al ensayo: El ensayo como género literario where you answered questions about the role of the essay and listed examples of essays from your daily life. Brainstorm answers to the five W's related to at least one of your examples.
Task 2. Key Word Search.
Task 3. Expanded Key Word Search.
Task 4. Personal Research. Find a personal source of information (a professor, instructor, local teacher, friend, graduate student, librarian) who is interested in the genre, the essayist, the topic, or the cultural/ historical perspective of the epoch in which the essayist lived and wrote. Try to expand your knowledge base by talking to that person about the topic(s) of your research. Document your discoveries here.
Task 1. Skim and Scan. Skim Vida y obra in the introduction to Rosario Castellanos (p.409). What kind of information does it provide? Scan the paragraph for answers to the following questions.
Task 2. Skim and Scan. Skim the second part of the introduction to Castellanos, La autora y su contexto. What kind of information does it offer? Scan the paragraph to answer the following questions.