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On Translation
Kind of Activity:
Classwide Discussion
Objective:
Students will be able to consider how translation impacts their understanding of a piece
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.6; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1
Structure:
Students will have observed by now that all of Neruda's poems are printed in Spanish as well as English. Explain to them that in any publication of Neruda, the poems must be printed in the original language alongside the translations. Ask students who know some Spanish if they would have translated the lines in the same way that William O'Daly did. If not, what might they have...
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