{"id":257,"date":"2021-12-06T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:04:05","slug":"rationale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-ii-overview\/rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ever since I read <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Poet X <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Elizabeth Acevedo early in first semester, I was excited to read it with my 9th graders. The main character, Xiomara, reflects a lot of the identities that young high schoolers have. She is in tenth grade, dealing with ups and downs in her relationship with her parents due to the expectations they have of her. She is navigating her first romantic relationship, as well as shifts in her friendships with her best friend Caridad and her twin brother, Xavier, who is coming to terms with his sexuality in the story. She uses poetry to express herself, music to escape, and finds a safe haven in Ms. Galiano\u2019s English class. Since the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> unit ended with a focus on the importance of positive mentors in young peoples\u2019 lives, this was a great entry point for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Poet X <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that linked it to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Romeo and Juliet,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and allowed for the unit to expand into a fascinating exploration of identity and creative expression through poetry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo early in first semester, I was excited to read it with my 9th graders. The main character, Xiomara, reflects a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-ii-overview\/rationale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rationale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat22-owinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}