You have read “golden glass” and “there is a tree that stands,” about two boys who are growing up. using details from the passage and the poem, write an essay that compares and contrasts how ted in “golden glass” and the speaker in “there is a tree that stands” experience growing up. in your essay, be sure to explain the relationships ted and the speaker have with their mothers and ted’s and the speaker’s feelings about growing up. write a well-organized, text-dependent response. be sure to save time to edit and review your work for complete sentences, spelling, punctuation, and appropriate language.

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.