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ERIC Number: EJ556693
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
The "Tesoros" Literacy Project: Treasuring Students' Lives (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students).
DeStigter, Todd; Aranda, Elsie; eddy, lisa
English Journal, v86 n6 p89-92 Oct 1997
Describes a project in a southeast Michigan high school in which Latino English-as-a-Second-Language students worked collaboratively for 10 weeks with at-risk working-class Anglo counterparts from an 11th-grade American literature class. Describes reading and writing activities that centered around the notion that students should search for and value the treasures of their own experience. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language), English Instruction, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, Literacy, Literature Appreciation, Multicultural Education, Secondary Education, United States Literature
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Michigan
Note: Theme: Writing and Rewriting: Issues and Practices in the English Classroom.