Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza Lesson Plan

Discuss expository techniques and organization in Anzaldua's poetry and essays. How does she introduce characters, setting, and other information, and what is the effect of how she chooses to do this?

For this question, students might identify specific techniques (for example, use of pronouns, ambiguity, sensory imagery, etc.) which occur across multiple poems and essays or they might focus on one poem and analyze the techniques used in that single work. For example, students might choose multiple poems which use second person point of view (either pervasively or in isolated moments), such as, "Cultures," which begins with a command--"vete/ go out take the pick axe/...