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Description

1. xv, 396 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his specially created English Language Acquisition class. He guides them through the enormous challenges of gaining basic English skills, adapting to life in the developed world, and coping with the usual pangs of adolescence. Together their class represents a microcosm of the global refugee crisis, and highlights the moral issues of immigration, inclusion, and America's role on the global stage.

Subject

1. South High School (Denver, Colo.) > Students
2. South High School (Denver, Colo.)
3. Teenage immigrants > Education (Secondary) > Colorado > Denver
4. Teenage refugees > Education (Secondary) > Colorado > Denver
5. English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
6. Teenage immigrants > Colorado > Denver
7. Teenage refugees > Colorado > Denver
8. Americanization
9. EDUCATION > Multicultural Education
10. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > English as a Second Language
11. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration
12. Students
13. Teenage immigrants
14. Teenage refugees
15. Colorado > Denver

Contents

1. The newcomers and those who welcomed them -- Part I: Fall. Nice to meet you ; The chair is short ; Smile ; Do you want a pencil? ; Have you seen war? ; Bonita ; Does she know Jesus? -- Part II: Winter. Delicious stick of butter ; The realist ; What five times (or, "I work my ass off") ; Our souls at night -- Part III: Spring. Well-taped boxes ; We hate sheep ; Wir schaffen das ; Silly one ; Qalb ; Busy, busy, busy ; Miss, I have nerves -- Part IV: Summer. Heal Africa -- Part V: Fall. Careless driving ; What is resolution?

Call number

1. JFE 18-5998

Author

1. Thorpe, Helen, 1963- author.

Title

1. The newcomers : finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom / Helen Thorpe.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Edition

1. First Scribner hardcover edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2017036773

Other standard identifier

1. 99975911135

ISBN

1. 9781501159091 (hardcover)
2. 1501159097 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFE 18-5998