A Scavenger Hunt: About This Activity
For this activity, choose an option. Read, research, listen, reflect and share your findings with your peers on this discussion board.
Option 1: Also By…
For this Scavenger Hunt option, I’d like you to seek and find a poem written by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo.
Share a link to the poem.
Discuss the poem and how you see it connecting to or diverging from the themes in his memoir.
Option 2: They Say/ He Says
I’m always interested in how writers talk about their work and how critics talk about a writer’s work. For this option, your charge is to share an excerpt from one of these sources (or you can look for a review or interview on your own – just make sure to link to it) and discuss how it’s impacted your understanding of Hernandez Castillo’s work.
You can find your own or check out a couple of the following:
How Poetry Helped Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Speak Out on Immigration by Corinne Segal (Links to an external site.)
Both Past and Present: A Conversation with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo by Jessica Wilbanks (Links to an external site.)
Creating Memory: An Interview with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo by Suzi F. Garcia (Links to an external site.)
A Chat with Mexican Author Marcelo Hernandez by Claire Jimenez (Links to an external site.)
Talking with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo About Children of the Land by Harriet Staff (Links to an external site.)
A Memoir About Growing Up Undocumented in America by Leticia Urieta (Links to an external site.)
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo – Poetry.LA Interview (Links to an external site.)
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo – Kenyon Review (Links to an external site.)
A Conversation with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo – Latin American Literature Today (Links to an external site.)
Option 3: Consider the DREAM
Learn more about DACA and living undocumented. Again, you can begin with some of the links here or find your own to discuss and share.
Information on DACA (Links to an external site.)
We Are DREAMers Documentary (Links to an external site.)
Living Undocumented Series on Netflix (Links to an external site.)
American Dreamers (Links to an external site.)
“Do Not Call Us DREAMers”: DACA & The Toxicity of the DREAMer Narrative by Tamara Hijazi
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