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The Family Tree: Nurturing Language Growth through "All the Parts of Me."

Describes a month-long project in an eighth-grade English classroom in which students (from many countries, many of them immigrants) read an array of bicultural literature, and each researched, wrote, and compiled a many-faceted Family Tree notebook. Shows how students can achieve both their own cultural authenticity and English language competence without loss of personal voice. (SR)

• Author/Creator: Vreeland, Patricia
• Date Published: Sep
• Journal/Secondary Title: Voices from the Middle
• Number: 1
• Volume: 6
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: English (Second Language)
• Subject: Grade 8
• Subject: Immigrants
• Subject: Junior High Schools
• Subject: Language Arts
• Subject: Literature Appreciation
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Self Esteem
• Subject: Student Projects
• Subject: Writing Improvement

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