Will a father pass even a slender thread of his culture onto his young son? Will her newborn girl be accepted? Compelling, bold, and heart-rending, this collection of fourteen stories is a vibrant testimony to the richness of global literature written by authors whose first language is English, but whose first culture is not. Drawn from various continents, each story in its original English form intellectually and emotionally explores life while simultaneously expanding learners' knowledge of the English language. The units open with pertinent pre-reading questions, unique library/Internet activities, and a short introduction to the author and theme. This is followed by the text of the reading, with difficult vocabulary defined in the margins. Further activities explore each story through Internet sites, journal writing, a focus on different styles and usage of English, discussion questions, and follow-up projects. The fourteen "views and voices" are divided into three sections: Part One, Family, centers on how individuals observe and define their parents and extended family; Part Two, Into Adulthood, addresses pivotal moments in growing up, from culture shock and homesickness to marriage and the search for identity; and Part Three, Culture Clash, recognizes the thorny problems which can characterize the meeting of cultures. Whether it be through the famous literary voices of Jamaica Kinkaid, Chinua Achebe, and Chita Banerjee Divakaruni or the less-known but equally powerful voices of Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta, these stories provide a solid affirmation to ESL/EFL learners that the growth of English can and will be a positive force to sharing other languages and cultures.WEBSITE: www.altaesl.com
Selections and activities to help you improve your understanding and mastery of English. Listen to the voice that comes through in the reading selections. Look at the ways the authors express emotion, convey ideas, and paint pictures with words. Then think about your own experience. Write about what you know and feel.
All the passages are authentic articles from magazines, newspapers, and advertisements published throughout the English speaking world, offering a diverse sample of writing. Each passage is uniquely presented in the cloze procedure, meaning those words which have proven to be difficult grammatical and lexical items for non-native speakers of English have been deleted. This directs the student's focus to these "problem words," and it is up to the student to decide which words should fill the gaps and thus write them in to complete the passage. In addition to these readings in cloze passage style, every unit offers a lively illustration, dictionary and pre-reading exercises to familiarize students with difficult vocabulary, and a wealth of follow-up exercises like composition and discussion questions, certain to develop and recycle students' reading, writing, grammar, and speaking skills.
When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and flourish. A glimmer of initiative swells into blind desire, and minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born, the price for this wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to settle. Richard Lanyon answers to no one save the aristocratic Sweetwater family, owners of the land he farms. His bitter resentment is legend within the bounds of their tiny Exmoor community, but as their tenant, Richard must do their bidding. Still, even noblemen don't have the power to contain ruthless ambition, and the Sweetwaters are no exception. Driven to succeed, Richard is prepared to take what is not his, and to forfeit the happiness of his family to claim the entitlements he lusts for. In this epic story Valerie Anand creates a vivid portrait of fifteenth-century English life that resonates with the age-old themes of ambition, power, desire and greed.
This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry. Combining biography with detailed film readings, the author fleshes out the tragic mulatto stereotype, while at the same time exploring concepts and themes such as racial identity, the one-drop rule, passing, skin color, transracial adoption, interracial romance, and more. With a wealth of background information, this study also places these actresses in historical context, providing insight into the construction of race, both onscreen and off.
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