Every Child Coming to America

<p><strong><em>Every Child Coming to America</em></strong> is a testimony of how much English language skills are developed when culture is represented and reflected in the new-found educational experience of the young teen immigrant. As a result the journey to America is portrayed vividly in their own words and according to how they experienced the journey to the new world.</p><p><br></p><p>In the acculturation process students grow silent as they digest and internalize the experiences of the new-found culture. In <strong><em>Every Child Coming to America</em></strong> their voices come alive. These are their stories; told by ex-ESOL (ESL) students themselves who arrived with hopes dreams and much uncertainty and graduated from high school with a clearer vision and purpose of the present and upcoming days ahead.</p><p><br></p><p>The stories published in this book were submitted as scholarship essays in an application for a scholarship. The students who submitted the essay or a modification of it received a scholarship. In some cases full-ride scholarships. As a complement for teachers and students I included basic guide questions used to facilitate the writing process of a winning scholarship essay (coming to America experience).</p><p><br></p><p>Their stories became treasures---described and narrated in their own terms which helped them cross the bridge to further academic college and career and personal success.</p>