Re: ESL Poem needed

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On 10/04/09, lynne/ca wrote:
> 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 Marķa 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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