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Assignment
6: UCLA Students Share Their Stories with Wilton Place Kids
According
to Wilton Place teacher Tony Osumi:
"If UCLA students can create opportunities for the booklet
to express the kids' voices and interests, it will be no problem
getting them to write for it. Motivation
comes from the meaningfulness of the work. My guess is that most of the kids have not read
or seen stories or heard people talk about their lives in real ways. They may need models and examples from us.
UCLA students should be writing stories now and sharing them
with students. Students may
also not really understand the concept of publishing and sharing
their stories with a wide audience.
Most teachers don't do anything like this — not even within
their own classroom. If kids
grasp the importance of wanting to share their own stories and receive
support for doing it, motivation goes way up.
UCLA students should think of ways to bring this understanding
to a kid’s level quickly."
Taking
Tony’s comments into account, write two short stories of about one-half
page each about yourself based upon the following list or any other
topic you think may be relevant to the type of work we are doing
in Wilton Place classrooms. Remember, we are writing this for elementary
students.
1. How you got your name and what it means.
2. How and why your family came to America or Los Angeles.
3. Your most memorable day — good, bad, exciting,
scary, etc.
4. Your favorite family food.
5. A story that connects somehow to the Open Court
theme, but takes it a step further and teaches a moral, message,
or is more critical and probing.
- Dean Saranillio, "My Home
Is In Hawai'i"
- Dean Saranillio, "I Am Filipino
and Japanese"
- Eriko Suzuki, "My Country,
Japan"
- Eriko Suzuki, "The Most
Memorable Day"
- Christine Tran, "My Name is Christine
Tran and Tran Hoai Phung"
- Christine Tran, "I
Love Food, But What's My Favorite?"
- Melissa Hilario, "My Favorite
Food is Kare Kare"
- Melissa Hilario, "Teamwork"
- Cheryl Samson, "Short Biographical
Stories"
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My name is Christine Tran and Tran
Hoai Phung.
By Christine Tran
I was the first to be born in my family.
Also, I was the first American born child in my family. When I was born, my parents did not speak English.
Since they were living in America now, they wanted me to
have an American name. They asked the doctor to name me. So on November 22, 1981 the doctor named me
Christine. My parents liked
it very much, but they also wanted me to have a Vietnamese name. My family decided to call me Phung. It means direction. My mom gave me my middle name,
Hoai. It means always or constant. So my American name is
Christine, which means follower of Christ.
Together, my Vietnamese name means a constant direction. In Vietnamese, the formal way to write a person’s
name is the last name first, middle name second, and first name
last. So my name in Vietnamese would be written in
this order: Tran Hoai
Phung. I love both
of my names.
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