Reading to a class in an elementary school in Houston ISD
I always capture the attention of elementary and middle school immigrant
children as I read to them from
my novel, although it's for the general public and at least an 11th and 12th grade education.
The students identify with my characters in the story. They are all ears when I mention Pancho Villa and the experiences the protagonist goes through while growing up during the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
I also educate them in revealing history as no one has taught them. I proudly tell them that the southwest of the United States was Mexico for three hundred years. Their eyes get big.
Then when I tell them that the whole United States and parts of Canada, except for the present New England states, belonged to our forefathers and it was called New Spain. Their eyes get bigger.
Then I tell them that America is the entire continent including all the countries from the North Pole to the South Pole. Their eyes are popping out at this time.
Then I ask, "How many of you are Americans?" And they all jump up and down with hands raised high towards the sky.
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. De
This book is for all first responders (law enforcement, fire, or other emergency personnel) who are or want to be supervisors in their agencies. It goes through all facets of good leadership.
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