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Creating a Commemorative Box

Decorate the inside and outside of a commemorative box to show both the influence of a specific person on a community and the impact of that community on the person's identity.


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Title: The Name Jar
Description: A young Korean girl arrives in America. Eager to be liked by her new classmates, she tries to find a new name to be accepted. A friend helps her take pride in her Korean name and its special meaning.
Author/Editor: Choi, Yangsook
Published by: New York: Random House, 2001

 

Title: The Lotus Seed
Description: A Vietnamese family is forced to flee their homeland. They find ways to adapt to life in a new country without losing touch with their heritage.
Author/Editor: Garland, Sherry
Published by: San Diego, CA: Voyager Books, 1993

 

Title: The Keeping Quilt
Description: A family from Russia makes a quilt to remind them of their roots.
Author/Editor: Polacco, Patricia
Published by: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988

 

Title: Angel Child, Dragon Child
Description: Ut comes to America from Vietnam, but her mother must stay behind. Insensitive classmates make her life difficult, but the students change their attitudes and raise money for Ut's mother to join her.
Author/Editor: Surat, Michele Maria
Published by: New York: Scholastic Inc., 1983
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