I got the sense that one reason for Lee’s obsession with Laura and Rose is to find a connection between her murky past (she knows very little about her ancestors’ lives in Vietnam) and a quintessential American figure. Lee asks herself, “How many times during the years of myLittle Ho...
Why we love it: This story about immigration is long enough for a mini-unit, and it’s great for teaching the basics of storytelling and style. It’s also a great story for helping students think about the immigration experience. 22. The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers Why ...
Immigration from the mainland took awhile to gather steam after the country was liberalized in 1976; according to Liu, the first “real” surge hit in the ’90s, when he arrived in Utah from Guangdong, and the speed has only intensified since. The SGV has become a place where you don’...
Over the holiday period, we would spend some time singing Christmas Carols in mom’s room and other locations in the hospital. Most often this included our little band of six-eight kids who ranged in age from five or six to their mid-teens. Sometimes two or three of us would just sit...
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“I designed an improvisation where one person had to stand off all of the rest of the kids in the school,” she recalled, “and Jo Ann had the power to stand them off. I said, ‘Ah ha, I can write this play around her. There’s the power I’m looking for.’’ Jo Ann WAS ...
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“I noticed by the way, since it became popular, they don’t call it Obamacare no more,” the former president said, scratching behind his ear for effect. And when talking about the failed immigration and border reform bill on Capitol Hill, he seized the moment to stop the...