... student named Alyssa who is a first generation student from El Salvador and speaks very little English. She was very shy and held back when I initially met her. The second time I saw Alyssa, she was sitting in a circle with 4 other girls speaking Spanish. I don't think Alyssa knew that I understood spanish, but she was discussing her situation with her boyfriend. When Alyssa was done speaking ... Alyssa often needs more attention and repetition while doing her work because English is not her first language. While watching Alyssa, I noticed that while talking to Mrs. T, the teacher that ...

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... easy life. Imagine that a family of immigrants from Mexico has just settled into their American home. They are not in an area where very many Spanish speaking people live and they are not familiar with English. They are not sure what to buy in what stores or how to get the money that they have changed over. The father knows some basic words in ... their children in school and they also both need to get a job. Registering their children for school would definitely prove to be difficult. They would have to have some sort of dictionary to translate some of the words or there might be a tra...

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• Grade Level: High School