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Direct linkPacheco, Mariana – Language Arts, 2009
This article examines how Chicana/o and Latina/o youth employed their political-historical knowledge to "talk back" to the xenophobia and political contradictions that underlie the (im)migration "debate." A literacy unit that honed bilingual students' everyday translating created opportunities for students to utilize this political-historical…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Language Arts, Immigration, Hispanic American Students
Peer reviewedVan Horn, Leigh – Language Arts, 2001
Describes an exploration the author and his seventh-grade students undertook as they wrote essays about objects of personal significance. Describes how they examined a piece of literature (an essay) as a model for their own writing, how they spent some time talking and listening to one another about their personal objects, and how they then wrote…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Essays, Grade 7
