Curriculum Connection

CALIFORNIA ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTS CONTENT STANDARDS Grades 6, 7, 8
3.0 Literary Response and Analysis - Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Cool Salsa

Cool Salsa Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (1994). Edited by Lori M. Carlson.
ISBN: 0-8050-3135-9

Compilation of poems written in Spanish and English by Latin American writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto and Pat Mora. Various topics - school, homeland, hardtimes, parties, families and memories - are addressed. The poems are emotional and visual, rhythmic and lyrical; evoking an array of emotions. Many poems can be a good starting point to inspire tweens to write about their own experiences.

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