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TRM ELL Essential Guide Handout
An ELL Essential Guide for this visual text Self-Portrait on the Borderline
can be found in the Teacher’s Resource between Mexico and the United States
Materials. Visual Text Frida Kahlo

TRM Instructional Strategies Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) was the daughter of Guillermo Kahlo, a
German immigrant to Mexico, and Matilde Calderón de Kahlo, a
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Vocabulary of Art. For advice on effec- woman of Spanish and indigenous descent. Born in Mexico, Kahlo Lucas Vallecillos/AGE Fotostock
tively conveying the Vocabulary of Art, see first traveled to the United States with her husband, Mexican painter
the Teacher’s Resource Materials. Diego Rivera, in the early 1930s. Over the next few years, the couple
lived in San Francisco, New York City, and Detroit before returning
to Mexico.
CLOSE READING KEY CONTEXT Kahlo painted Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United
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You might have students apply the OPTIC States while she was living in the United States with her husband, Diego Rivera.
strategy for analyzing visual rhetoric, which
offers a sequence of analysis steps.

TRM Instructional Strategies
OPTIC. For advice on effectively convey-
ing the OPTIC strategy, see the Teacher’s
Resource Materials.

Private Collection Photo ©Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images ©2022 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York;

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DIFFERENTIATION
Connections to Text
You might have students compare Kahlo’s
painting of the border to the photograph on
page 277. How do the images’ arguments dif-
fer? How are they similar?

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