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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Language Lessons: Chinese Girl -- Ghost Language -- The Bear -- Fenway, Boston Red Sox vs. Cleveland Indians: Kosuke Fukudome -- Passing -- Your Language, Your Face -- Tongue -- Death of the Immigrant Language -- Body -- Primer: How I Got Them -- Because about 66% of students receiving Special Education services are boys, and in our -- school's self-contained SpEd classrooms that number increases to about 99% -- Secondary Trauma -- Special Education -- Idiom -- The Fix-up Strategies -- Ask Questions -- Reread the Text -- Read the Author's Note -- Look at Pictures, Illustrations, Charts, and Graphs -- Ask for Help -- Stop Reading -- Examination: The Key to Saving American Education: Post-racial Ghazal -- Blazer -- Ritual -- The Bees -- When Someone Screams the N-Word from the Next Campsite -- Uniform -- After the Pulse Orlando Shooting, My Wife Asks if We Can Eat at Chick-fil-A -- San Francisco: Boomtown -- Views -- Notes. |
| Summary |
"Special Education is a new teacher's journey to understanding herself, her students, and her world through the hard lessons her work life offers up. Questions of identity, failure, family, and connection surface as Mar's primary speaker (a queer, neurotypical, Asian American woman) navigates the shifting divides of race, class, gender, and disability through poetry"-- Provided by publisher |
| Awards |
X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Winner, 2019. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women teachers -- California -- San Francisco -- Poetry.
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Multicultural education -- California -- San Francisco -- Poetry.
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Asian American lesbians -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.
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Women with disabilities -- Poetry.
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Cultural pluralism -- Poetry.
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Cultural pluralism |
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Multicultural education |
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Women teachers |
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Women with disabilities |
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California -- San Francisco |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mar, Caroline M. Special education. Huntsville : Texas Review Press, [2020] 9781680032345 (DLC) 2020004445 |
| ISBN |
9781680032352 (epub) |
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1680032356 |
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9781680032345 (paperback) |
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