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This assignment gives you practice with Identifying Text Organization. Click on the link to open the TED Talk "Immigrant Voices" by Sayu Bhojwani  in a new tab.  Listen carefully for the problems she highlights and the solutions she o�ers.  

You will have to �ll in some of the vocabulary she uses and answer questions about her main idea and supporting examples. This assignment is worth 30 points.

Right click on this link to open it in a new tab.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sayu_bhojwani_immigrant_voices_make_democracy_stronger

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QUESTION 1

Looking at the website, what do you think this talk will be about? Make a guess before listening. Write a sentence in your own words.

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A. Listen to the talk from the beginning and �ill in the missing words below starting at minute 4:23. Check spelling carefully!

4:23 Two things happened as we with loss and recovery in New

York City. Voters elected Michael Bloomberg mayor of New York City. We also by ballot referendum the Office of Immigrant Affairs for the

City of New York. Five months after that election, the newly elected mayor

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me the first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs for this newly

established office.

4:55 I want you to come back to that time. I was a young immigrant woman from Belize. I had basically floundered in various jobs in America before I started a community-based

in a church basement in Queens. The attacks of September 11

sent shock waves through my community. People who were members of my family, young people I had worked with, were experiencing at schools, at

workplaces and in airports. And now I was going to their

concerns in government. No job felt more perfect for me.

5:38 And here are two things I learned when I became . First,

well-meaning New Yorkers who were in city government holding government positions had no idea how scared immigrants were of law enforcement. Most of us don't really know the difference, do we, between a sheriff and and the FBI. And most

of us, when we see someone in uniform going through our neighborhoods feel curiosity, if not concern. So if you're an parent, every day when you say

goodbye to your child, send them off to school and go to work, you don't know what the chances are that you're going to see them at the end of the day. Because a raid at your

, a chance encounter with local police could change the course of

your life forever.

6:34 The second thing I learned is that when people like me, who that fear, who had learned a new language, who had navigated

new systems, when people like us were sitting at the table, we advocated for our communities' needs in a way that no one else could or would. I understood what that feeling of fear was like. People in my family were experiencing it. Young people I had worked with were being

, not just by classmates, but also by their teachers. My husband,

then boyfriend, thought twice before he put a backpack on or grew a beard because he traveled so much.

7:17 What I learned in 2001 was that my vote mattered but that my voice and vantage point also mattered. And it's these three things -- immigrants' votes, voices and

point -- that I think can help make our democracy stronger. We

actually have the power to change the outcome of elections, to

new issues into the policy debate and to change the face of the pale, male, stale leadership that we have in our country today.

7:52 So how do we do that? Well, let's talk first about votes. It will come as no surprise to you that the of voters in America are white. But it might surprise you

to know that one in three voters are black, Latino or Asian. But here's the thing: it doesn't just matter who can vote, it who does vote. So in 2012, half of the

Latino and Asian-American voters did not vote.

8:23 And these votes matter not just in presidential elections. They matter in and state elections. In 2015, Lan Diep, the eldest son of political

from Vietnam, ran for a seat in the San Jose City Council. He

lost that election by 13 votes. This year, he dusted off those campaign shoes and went back to for that seat, and this time he won, by 12 votes. Every one of our

votes matters.

9:01 And when people like Lan are sitting at the policy table, they can make a . We need those voices. We need those voices in part because

American leadership does not look like America's . There are

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over 500,000 local and state offices in America. Fewer than 2 percent of those offices are held by Asian-Americans or Latinos, the two largest immigrant groups in our country. In the city of Yakima, Washington, where 49 percent of the population is Latino, there has never been a Latino on the city council until this year. Three newly elected Latinas joined the Yakima City Council in 2016. One of them is Carmen Méndez. She is a first-generation college student. She grew up partly in Colima, Mexico, and partly in Yakima, Washington. She's a single mother, a community

. Her voice on the Yakima City Council is advocating on behalf

of the Latino community and of all Yakima residents. And she's a role model for her daughter and other Latinas.

10:15 But the third most resource in American democracy is the

point that immigrants bring. We have fought to be here. We have

come for economic and educational opportunity. We have come for political and religious freedom. We have come in the pursuit of love. That dedication, that

to America we also bring to public service. People like Athena

Salman, who just last week won the primary for a seat in the Arizona State House. Athena's father grew up in the West Bank and moved to Chicago, where he met her mother. Her mother is part Italian, part Mexican and part German. Together they moved to Arizona and built a life. Athena, when she gets to the statehouse, is going to fight for things like education funding that will help give families like hers a leg up so they can achieve the

stability that we all are looking for.

11:21 Immigrants' votes, voices and vantage points are what we all need to work to include in American . It's not just my work. It's also yours. And it's not

going to be easy. We never know what putting a new factor into an will do. And it's a little scary. You're scared that I'm going to

take away your place at the table, and I'm scared that I'm never going to get a place at the table. And we're all scared that we're going to lose this country that we know and love. I'm scared you're going to take it away from me, and you're scared I'm going to take it away from you.

12:06 Look, it's been a rough election year, a reminder that people with my immigration history could be removed at the whim of a leader. But I have fought to be in this country and I continue to do so every day. So my optimism never wavers, because I know that there are millions of immigrants just like me, in front of me, behind me and all around me. It's our country, too.

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QUESTION 3

Write �ive new words from her talk and guess their meaning. Example: 1. resilience: strength, perseverance

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What is her main idea? Restate it in your own words using one complete sentence. Do not repeat her words.

Begin your sentence like this: In this talk, Bhojwani claims that ...

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QUESTION 5

Make a list of three problems she discussed in the immigrant community.

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QUESTION 6

Make a list of three solutions she discussed for the immigrant community.

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Do you agree or disagree with the speaker? Support your opinion with an example from your experience. Answer this question in 2-3 sentences using your own words.

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