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Okay, here's the situation. I work at a school where I teach ESL 1, 2 and 3, and the 2s and 3s have a regular English class on top of ESL. I'm trying to figure out what literature I can use to prepare the 1s and assist the 2s and 3s so that they do pretty well in their English classes. What I need are the names of literary texts that have worked with ESL students. Any suggestions? I want them to be interested and mostly get practice at literary analysis and comprehension.
Thanks
There is a great textbook, Inside Out/Outside In, that is a collection of (mostly) short stories (a few poems are included, as well), and all are by American authors including such writers as Amy Tan, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, and a wide variety of others.
It has the stories and numerous activities like you would find in a lit class. I find it a great introduction for my high intermediate/low advanced students to reading creative writing in English. They get lots of factual reporting in their reading classes, but this is the one time that they get lit.
Many of the stories also give chances to discuss American culture and history and how it changed during the 20th century.
Most of my students love it, but they are adults in a community college, so different from your students.
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we read "streetcar named desire" at our esl class, it was pretty sucessful.
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There is a great textbook, Inside Out/Outside In, that is a collection of (mostly) short stories (a few poems are included, as well), and all are by American authors including such writers as Amy Tan, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, and a wide variety of others.
It has the stories and numerous activities like you would find in a lit class. I find it a great introduction for my high intermediate/low advanced students to reading creative writing in English. They get lots of factual reporting in their reading classes, but this is the one time that they get lit.
Many of the stories also give chances to discuss American culture and history and how it changed during the 20th century.
Most of my students love it, but they are adults in a community college, so different from your students.
References :
http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=%22inside+out+outside+in+exploring+american+literature%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAlPs5D4mwEeMkri60_uefI8azKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D11i46jb92%2FEXP%3D1200537118%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAva_Fj_hDOzJ0YKGLtrVs8sazKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D1210ddkhn%2FEXP%3D1200537118%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=%22inside+out+outside+in+exploring+american+literature%22
The shop.com link has a picture of the book, I think. None of the sites had a lot of information about the content, at least in my cursory look. Houghton Mifflin is the publisher.
I'm not sure what grade or backgrounds you have but I love Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street or, for older students, Woman Hollering Creek and other stories.
The latter is especially good for reviewing/teaching a wide variety of literary terms. My ESL students actually "taught" some of the stories to the class. They really rose to the challenge and enjoyed it.
Both are very rich and yet composed of short pieces that can be read in class so as not to overburden the students who are trying to keep up with their regular English classes.
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