Includes index.

The Language We Share brings together a uniquely Canadian collection of readings for the intermediate/advances ESL student as well as for students upgrading their remedial English skills.

Representing a variety of voices, including critically acclaimed authors, professional journalists, social activists, aspiring writers, and award-winning students, The Language We Share provides a multicultural framework for empowering students from different backgrounds.

A focus on the thematic approach is reinforced with issue related questions to encourage classroom discussion of topics such as education, family, work, gender, tradition, language, racism and stereotyping, memories of the past and the Canadian identity.

A rhetoric index allows instructors to explore different rhetorical strategies.

Each reading is accompanied by an author biography, key words and meanings, prereading exercises, questions about the reading, ideas for discussion, writing suggestions and other activities.
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CONTENTS

UNIT ONE - ARRIVALS: NEW BEGINNINGS
The Immigrants / Margaret Atwood
A New Life in Canada / Sophia Eastwood
Saskatchewan's Indian People - Five Generations/ Pat Deiter-McArthur (Day Woman)
Grandson of a Slave / George F. McCurdy
July 1930 / Giuseppe Ricci
With Glowing Hearts / Raheel Raza

UNIT TWO - COPING WITH DIFFERENCES: RACISM AND STEREOTYPING
No More Tears / Alina Tomaszewski
Teach Them Early about Differences / Yasmeen Siddiqui
I Fought to Keep My Hair / Martha Flaherty
Les Anglais - Not Homogenized / Lise Archambault-Scott
The Trouble with Kamin's Snack Bar... / Jacquie Miller
Final Dance on Racism's Grave? / David Suzuki

UNIT THREE - EDUCATION: GROWING UP
My Reason / Della Anaquod
Judy / Esther Kershman Muhlstock
"I Ain't Sitting Beside Her" / Shyrose Jaffer
Choose a Book, Choose Another / Neil Bissoondath
The Other Family / Himani Bannerji
Speaking Saskatchewan / Rudy Wiebe

UNIT FOUR - FAMILY: TOGETHER AND APART Fathers / Lake Sagaris
Finding a Nationality That Fits / Isabel Vincent
The Green-Roses Kerchief / Maara Haas
Shun-Wai / Taien Ng
Be Fruitful and Multiply / Madeleine Ferron

UNIT FIVE - RELATING: ABOUT GENDER Suzanne Takes You Down / Leonard Cohen
Pomegranate Blossoms / Fiorella De Luca Calce
The Kiss and the Moonshine / Basil H. Johnston
Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown / Anne Jew
Confessions of a Sinophobe / C. Allyson Lee
Arranged Marriage "A Commitment for Life" / Homaira Kabir

UNIT SIX - : WORK: DREAMS AND CHALLENGES
A cursing Poem / Tom Wayman
Story / Toivo Niemi
My First Canadian Job / Anna N. Mineyko
Myrtle / Makeda Silvera
Montreal Days / Erika Simon

UNIT SEVEN - CULTURE: CEREMONIES AND TRADITIONS
Caribana: Toronto / Daniel Caudeiron
Uniquely West Indian / Colin Rickards
The Buffalo Hunt / Louis Goulet
The Porcupine Quill Saga / Clare McNab
Afternoon of Blood and Honour / Silvia Teja-Gonzalez
Spirits of the Railway / Paul Yee

UNIT EIGHT- LANGUAGE: BEYOND SILENCE
I Lost My Talk / Rita Joe
The Other Side of the Schoolyard / André McNicoll
Illiterate Like Me / Dan Zollmann
All Accent on Learning English / Sun-Kyung Yi
An Immigrant Child Remembers / Lucy Fazio

UNIT NINE - MEMORY: REVISITING THE PAST
What Do I Remember of the Evacuation / Joy Kogawa
The Gift / Marilyn Dumont
Inside the Walls of a Secret City / Wendy Tang
The New Apartheid / Derek Cohen
Early Magic / Archie Crail

UNIT TEN - CANADIAN IDENTITY: SIDE BY SIDE
Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border / Alootook Ipellie
No Nation So Favoured / Hugh MacLennan
Noises from the Attic / Peter Newman
I Didn't Know I Was Different / Jenine Dumont
The Canadian Dream / Julie-Ann Yoshikuni
The Hockey Sweater / Roch Carrier

CREDITS

RHETORICAL INDEX