Voices from the Fields
Publication Information
Author:  Atkin, S. Beth	Illustrator:  Atkin, S. Beth (Photo.)
Title:  Voices from the Fields	Date:  1993
Publisher:  Little, Brown	City:  Boston
ISBN, paperback:  0-316-05633-2	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:
General Information:
Book Type(s):    essays, biography and autobiography, nonfiction, poetry, photographic essay
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
Photographs, poems, and interviews capture glimpses of life for today's migrant children.
Teaching Ideas:
Possible text sets include: immigration, family, work, migrant workers, child labor, adolescence, education, gangs/social problems. Teachers may want to excerpt sections of the book, since it's not a book everyone would want to read completely. Could be used as a stimulus for writing family histories. Poetry would work well with response activities (e.g., Bleich's Heuristic). The interviews have a cumulative and very powerful effect. Perhaps pairs of learners could select interviews, read them for aspects of culture or attitudes about family, and then share and compare.
Teaching Strategies:
Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Social Studies > anthropology > daily life Ethnic Groups > Mexican-American Hardships > survival Communities > rural Social Studies > sociology > social issues > child labor Social Studies > sociology > social issues > gangs Social Studies > sociology > social issues > migrant workers Work > migrant Family > family heritage Literature and Language > poetry

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