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Author Mar, Caroline M., author

Title Special education : poems / by Caroline M. Mar
Published Huntsville : Texas Review Press, [2020]

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Contents Language Lessons: Chinese Girl -- Ghost Language -- The Bear -- Fenway, Boston Red Sox vs. Cleveland Indians: Kosuke Fukudome -- Passing -- Your Language, Your Face -- Tongue -- Death of the Immigrant Language -- Body -- Primer: How I Got Them -- Because about 66% of students receiving Special Education services are boys, and in our -- school's self-contained SpEd classrooms that number increases to about 99% -- Secondary Trauma -- Special Education -- Idiom -- The Fix-up Strategies -- Ask Questions -- Reread the Text -- Read the Author's Note -- Look at Pictures, Illustrations, Charts, and Graphs -- Ask for Help -- Stop Reading -- Examination: The Key to Saving American Education: Post-racial Ghazal -- Blazer -- Ritual -- The Bees -- When Someone Screams the N-Word from the Next Campsite -- Uniform -- After the Pulse Orlando Shooting, My Wife Asks if We Can Eat at Chick-fil-A -- San Francisco: Boomtown -- Views -- Notes
Summary "Special Education is a new teacher's journey to understanding herself, her students, and her world through the hard lessons her work life offers up. Questions of identity, failure, family, and connection surface as Mar's primary speaker (a queer, neurotypical, Asian American woman) navigates the shifting divides of race, class, gender, and disability through poetry"-- Provided by publisher
Notes X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Winner, 2019
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Subject Women teachers -- California -- San Francisco -- Poetry
Multicultural education -- California -- San Francisco -- Poetry
Asian American lesbians -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry
Women with disabilities -- Poetry
Cultural pluralism -- Poetry
Cultural pluralism
Multicultural education
Women teachers
Women with disabilities
California -- San Francisco
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020004446
ISBN 9781680032352
1680032356
Other Titles Poems. Selections