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We Are All Americans: Understanding Diversity - Hardcover

Joy Masoff

 
9780972715621: We Are All Americans: Understanding Diversity

Synopsis

From around the world to right next door, find out what makes America such a unique nation. Created with the guidance of America's leading diversity educators, students will explore every aspect of diversity from an exciting new perspective. Perfect for differentiated learning and ESOL students.
Celebrate diversity in America.
Discover:
--How we got here.
--The story of immigration.
--The experiences of people from different continents when they arrived.
--Diverse foods, sports, games, music, and holidays that became all-American favorites.
--What make us uniquely American.
--Great Americans and their diverse roots. And much more!
Colorful artwork, charts and graphs, vibrant photos, and easy-to-read text.

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About the Author

Writtten by Joy Masoff, author of the OUR WORLD series and Mali: Land of Gold & Glory

Reviews

Grade 4–7—Gloriously supported by photographs, diagrams, and maps, this five-chapter overview offers information about America's immigrants. "In the Beginning" describes diversity and how it is created. "A New Start" focuses on the mechanisms in place for journeying from country to country-passports and visas, Ellis Island and Angel Island. The most comprehensive section, "Who Are We?," chronicles those who have come from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania to make a home in the United States. Readers will delight in "Coming Together," which features plants and animals, food, sports, games, holidays, and music from myriad backgrounds that Americans now enjoy. The last section, "All Together Now," discusses the strengths of diversity, featuring significant Americans. The author's note begins with this disclaimer: "It is impossible to include every group that has made contributions to life in America…I would need 10,000 books to do that!" Masoff, of course, is right, but this book is a most successful beginning. Browsers will find it both a mirror and a window for their own lives.—Alexa Sandmann, Kent State University, OH
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