Originally published a year ago, this story from my classroom has been on my mind of late. It still resonates because I, as an English teacher, will always represent for students Reading–its joys but also its traumas. And there are times that I forget and …
For this blog, I offer 11 stories of immigration alongside student voices to make visible the sort of thinking teens are doing about immigration and the social forces that impact lives around the globe. How these books imagine America have everything to do with how our students imagine their world — what it is and what it ought to be.