Immigrant students use writing to open a window into their world – Houston
Tagged: book, family, Houston, student, TexasPosted on: April 8th, 2007“Students in the Immigrant Writing Festival meet once a week to produce poems and essays based on their own experiences and modeled on works by Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes and others. They are also given a journal for personal writing, which no one else reads. At the end of the class, the students classroom writings are compiled into a book called “Mi Mundo en Palabras.” My World in Words.
“When an immigrant student comes in high school, they have lost their neighborhoods, their friends, part of their family, and their country. In essence, they have lost their whole world,” said Rustomji, a counselor who works with multilingual students.”
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