The "Tesoros" Literacy Project: Treasuring Students' Lives (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students).

DeStigter, Todd; Aranda, Elsie; eddy, lisa

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ERIC Number: EJ556693

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Publication Date: 1997

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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

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Michigan

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