Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
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The children of Latino families often learn English more quickly than their parents. They become the family interpreters, making phone calls, translating bills and letters and going with their parents...
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Adjusting to American schools is challenging for immigrant kids and their parents. They face a language barrier and educational systems that are very different from those in Latin American countries.
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Extended families separated by the realities of immigration yearn for contact. In this chapter a video letter goes to Mexico and Carlos Garrido of the University of Vercruz explains cultural identity...
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Dr. Elaine Lacy discusses other problems immigrants face, from getting children into school to medical care, and Maria's mother talks about feelings of isolation. Hispanic Outreach and Padres en...
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Interpreting for the family can be difficult for kids, and sometimes dangerous. Griselda got into serious trouble when she interpreted for her aunt at an Immigration Office.
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The growing Latino populations is having an impact on the economy. Some say it is positive, others disagree. Whatever we think of immigration, no one can deny that people come here to make a better...
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Griselda's case goes to court and Carlos Garrido tells us more about the consequences of deportation for Mexicans.
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Mario Bravo's father worked in South Carolina and rarely made it home to Mexico. She hardly knew him, and it broke his heart. Today more Latino men are bringing their families with them to the U.S...
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Immigrant parents worry that their children will assimilate too quickly and get into trouble. But Maria - like most immigrant kids - works hard to be successful, to prove that her parents' struggles...
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Part 1 of the story of Mary Gordon Ellis. Mary Gordon Ellis was the first female to be elected to the S.C. Legislature. The drama depicts her life as the school superintendent of Jasper County where...