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Sonia Nazario, the author of this year's One Book/One Glendale text will be visiting on campus and speaking about her Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Enrique's Journey, on Thursday, November 6 at noon. Enrique's Journey is the biographical story of a boy's dangerous odyssey to reunite with his mother after she left their home in Honduras in order to provide a better life for them by working in the U.S. The book is a gripping and fast-paced account of familial love and courage, told through the story of one immigrant family's journeys. In doing so the book touches upon many of our country's current debates about the financial and emotional costs of immigration. We're excited to have her here, and we see this as a great opportunity to foster a college-wide learning community of sorts in which faculty and students may become involved in reading, writing about, and discussing Nazario's text. In addition, there will be a series of presentations on immigration issues led by GCC faculty in the weeks before Nazario's talk. For a schedule of these events, see http://seco.glendale.edu/socialsciences/enrique_journey_gcc.htm In addition, on October 28, 12 -1, the English Division and the Writing Across the Curriculum committee will sponsor a brown bag discussion on ways in which the book can be used in courses across the campus.
The first six chapters of
Enrique's Journey
are available online at http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2003,Feature+Writing. Also, five copies are available on library's reserve, as well as a
study guide for the book. If you can't fit the entire book in your
curriculum, consider assigning one chapter and asking students to write
a short response to one of the book's many topical issues. The book has
many intersections with provocative topics across academic disciplines.
For sample assignments in a variety of disciplines, visit the GCC
Writing Across the Curriculum website at http://www.glendale.edu/wac/Enrique%27s%20Journal_Ass.pdf.
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