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Run for your life
Some people know
how to cook kabuh
how to speak Arabic and English
how to bless people
how to wear the hijab
how to dance Syrian dances
how to leave your own country
how to run for your life.
And some people don’t.
Hanadi Al Bakhas, Syria
Distributor: Nationwide
Format: Pb 200 pp
ISBN: 9780473724597
Email: books@nationwidebooks.co.nz
$18.00
Poems by ESOL students, Mana College, Porirua
Editors: Adrienne Jansen and Alexandra Heke
From our hands to yours is a selection of poems from five years of poetry workshops with students in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes at Mana College in Porirua.
These moving, charming, funny, sometimes awkward poems were written by students from Samoa, Syria, Fiji, Vietnam, Tonga, Tokelau, Philippines, Myanmar, and Colombia. Some are English beginners, others are more fluent.
They write about many subjects, from grandparents, to wishes, to how they seem to other people. Their poems provide an illuminating glimpse into the immigrant experience as seen through teen eyes, and are a celebration of many different cultures and of Aotearoa New Zealand itself.
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Notes for teachers, including the writing exercises which shaped the poems in this book, are available under Resources.
Education Gazette: From Our Hands to Yours: Sharing stories from every corner of Aotearoa
$18.00
Poems by ESOL students, Mana College, Porirua
Editors: Adrienne Jansen and Alexandra Heke
From our hands to yours is a selection of poems from five years of poetry workshops with students in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes at Mana College in Porirua.
These moving, charming, funny, sometimes awkward poems were written by students from Samoa, Syria, Fiji, Vietnam, Tonga, Tokelau, Philippines, Myanmar, and Colombia. Some are English beginners, others are more fluent.
They write about many subjects, from grandparents, to wishes, to how they seem to other people. Their poems provide an illuminating glimpse into the immigrant experience as seen through teen eyes, and are a celebration of many different cultures and of Aotearoa New Zealand itself.
—–
Notes for teachers, including the writing exercises which shaped the poems in this book, are available under Resources.
Education Gazette: From Our Hands to Yours: Sharing stories from every corner of Aotearoa
Run for your life
Some people know
how to cook kabuh
how to speak Arabic and English
how to bless people
how to wear the hijab
how to dance Syrian dances
how to leave your own country
how to run for your life.
And some people don’t.
Hanadi Al Bakhas, Syria
Distributor: Nationwide
Format: Pb 200 pp
ISBN: 9780473724597
Email: books@nationwidebooks.co.nz