Finding a Voice: Secondary Students Write Their Stories.
Author(s):
Allen, Lindsey
Format:
Journal article
Citation:
MinneTESOL Journal, Volume 8, (1990). pp. 27-38.
Language:
English
Abstract:
A curriculum project is described that consists of a unit developed for a writing class in a secondary English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom. Although the unit is intended to present an idea of what can be accomplished in the ESL classroom with developing writers, it does not give any specific "recipes" for writing development. The setting in which the unit was taught was a beginning/intermediate reading and writing class at an urban senior high school with 17 students aged 15-21 in grades 9-11, all but one of whom were Hmong. Dialogue journal writing and narrative writing were used as the primary activities. Student writing samples are included. (LB)