Re: ESL Poem needed

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On 10/04/09, esl teacher wrote:
> Julia Alvarez has a very short story called Names/Nombres.
> It's been a long time since I read it but it talks about
> identity and how the teacher pronounces the narrator's name
> differently than how her family pronounces it. It is very
> good. I couldn't find it on the web but you could find it in
> an anthology in the library.
>
> Richard Rodriguez is another author who writes about growing
> up Hispanic in the US and learning English. You could find a
> good excerpt from him, too.
>
>

Judith Ortiz Cofer's book Call Me María has
several good poems about a Puerto Rican immigrant learning
English.

Another is a poem called Yuba City School by Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni, which you can probably find online.
 

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