Barrio Boy

As you reread the excerpt from Barrio Boy, remember that like most authors, Galarza never explicitly states the central ideas. Instead, it is up to the reader to infer the central ideas by drawing inferences from what is stated directly in the text. Reread paragraph 17. What details in the paragraph support the opening sentence: “At Lincoln, making us into Americans did notmean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign”? Use the annotation tool to jot down notes about how this sentence might state a central idea.