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The author’s website provides information on Mawi's story, including his commencement speech at Harvard, and his programs.
o Philadelphia Free Library Podcast of Mawi Asegdom's Speech in February 2008
A wonderful audio speech by Mawi Asegdom. He spoke at Central Library in February 2008 as a part of Philadelphia’s One Book, One Philadelphia project.
This website allows students to examine the impact of conflicts throughout the world, with focus on such African countries as Somalia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. In addition to the audio interviews with teenage refugees now living in the United States, this site also hosts a great deal of information on the lives of teenage refugees, child soldiers, and other issues. Students can click on individual students' stories, follow a time line, and read background articles on various conflicts.
o Extended Lives: the African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia
Part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, this website explores many aspects of the new African immigrants living in Philadelphia. Although they have left their home countries, they have not lost contact. Instead, most find that their lives become extended in various ways, so that they remain emotionally, politically, spiritually, and financially invested in their home countries, even as they create new lives in the United States. The exhibit includes sections on extended families, extending communities, extending occupations, the refugee experience, religious life, including many quotations, stories, and pictures from African community members.
The Library of Congress provides historical, social, cultural, and political information about Ethiopia. It includes a section on the Eritrean Movement, as well as information on refugees and the cultural life of Ethiopians.
Chapters "The Make Up" and "The Convocation"
Skills we will develop during our review
and here's another great analysis of the main characters
Marjane Satrapi's Wikipedia entry, a great review of her life and work.
A great interview with Marjane Satrapi about why she wrote Persepolis.
And here's a great audio interview with NPR's Fresh Air host Terry Gross interviewing Marjane Satrapi. It is well worth a listen!
Marjane Satrapi has a blog on the New York Times website and in 2005 wrote an interesting graphic piece titled "Defending My Country" while on tour with her book Persepolis.
Ms. Satrapi also wrote another wonderful piece in the New York Times titled "I Must Go Home to Iran Again" in which she talks about both Persepolis but also about how people received her book and how she feels about her mother country.
"WIDE ANGLE’s unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, returns in 2009 with visits to seven classrooms in seven countries to offer a glimpse into the lives of seven extraordinary children who are struggling to get what nearly all American kids take for granted: a basic education. We started filming in 2002, watching as kids first entered school in Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya and Romania, many despite great odds. Several years later, in 2006, we returned to film an update — and now, three years later, we travel to check in on our young teenagers who are making the precarious transition to middle school..."
After our class discussion of what constitutes style in writing, we decided upon a definition and some criteria for assessing a writer's style. Use the criteria below to assess our summer reading memoirs. Remember...
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Character development
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Adapted from Erik Christensen, Lakeside Upper School
You've completed your grid and analyzed the writing style of one of our summer reading authors, now it is time to put it all together. Use the linked handout to help you craft a one-paragraph response that analyzes the writing style of your selected book. Ultimately, you will use your brainstormed ideas from this handout to craft a well-revised blog post which will be added to our class website. We will post our responses as a blog in class on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1st.
Our class will split up into smaller groups based on whether you selected to read Sound of Waves, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, or Jasmine for your choice summer reading novel. Each group will work together to unpack some of events of the story in order to present a theme from the story to the class. Each group will create a poster and present their theme and analysis. Groups will need to appoint specific tasks to each group member in order to efficiently and effectively complete this project.
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