The newcomers
Subtitle: finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom
By: Helen Thorpe
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781501159091
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Teenage immigrants; Foreign speakers; Study and teaching; Education (Secondary); Americanization; English language; Teenage refugees
Description: Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful Denver South High School teacher Mr. Eddie Williams welcomes these students, who speak fourteen different languages but no English and are completely unfamiliar with American culture, to his specially created English Language Acquisition class. He guides them through the enormous challenges of gaining basic English skills, adapting to life in the developed world, and coping with the usual pangs of adolescence. Together their class represents a microcosm of the global refugee crisis, and highlights the moral issues of immigration, inclusion, and America's role on the global stage.