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Book Detail
Tea With Milk |
Publication Information
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Author: Say, Allen |
Illustrator: Say, Allen |
Title: Tea With Milk |
Date: 1999 |
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin |
City: Boston |
ISBN, paperback: 0-395-90495-1 |
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Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
fiction, true story, memoirs/reminiscences
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
May (the author's mother) is learning American ways when her family moves back to Japan. When her parents hire a matchmaker to find her a husband, May moves to Osaka, begins a career, and finds her own happiness. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Students may want to discuss or write about Say's beautiful illustrations, which reflect the story perfectly. Other discussion/ writing possibilities include being raised in a different culture, conflicting societal roles, role of women in different cultures or across generations, or adaptation vs. maintaining one's cultural ways in a new environment. ESL students may want to focus on the issue of "Americanization" or explore the bilingualism in the story and relate it to their own lives. A text set about Allen Say (especially Grandfather's Journey) might spark learner interest in writing their own family stories.
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