Describe a meaningful family tradition unique to your culture and explain how it mirrors or contrasts with the cultural identity themes of expectations and roles in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.

Prompt: Describe a meaningful family tradition unique to your culture and explain how it mirrors or contrasts with the cultural identity themes of expectations and roles in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.


Prompt Response: A meaningful family tradition that my family has is the week of Fourth of July. During this week, my family and I go to Emarld Isle with my moms side of the family. We have been carrying on this tradition since I was a baby. If I decided I did not like this trip or the Fourth of July my parents would probably be confused and disappointed. This mirrors "Girl" because in this story if the girl did not follow her mom's expectations or rules she would be disappointed or upset. More importantly the mom sets family expectations through actions and my family does through celebrating. They both set expectations, just in different ways.

Summary: In class today we took student id pictures and finished our last four questions that related to the story "Girl".

Reflection: Today in class I learned I need to stay on task with my blog because I almost forgot I needed to do it, but Mr. Rease reminded me to do it. I also learned that being on top of assignments is a good thing because then I can get ahead on other things. 

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