Write a short summary and response to Kao Kalia Yang’s Late Homecomer. In your comments

1. Provide a brief summary of the story.
2. Provide your reaction to her story
3. Explain how you might use in you teaching what you have learned from her story

You can use the discussion questions for ideas to begin your response. Support your opinions by citing Yang and ONE relevant chapter from Peregoy& Boyle. The point of the assignment is to give you a chance to reflect on your reading and to discuss how you might make use of what you learn from reading Yang’s story.

Write 300-900 words.

Please follow APA style.

NEXT Please answer 2 of the following.

1. Summarize what you can recall of the story.
   1. Retell the story to a partner. Be ready to share.
2. Why is she telling this story?
3. What was something in the story that stood out to you? Why?
4. What does Yang report about learning language as a child? About learning stories? What can we learn from that?
5. What languages were used when she grew up? What languages does she report using?
6. What does Yang report about her other experiences encountering English?
   1. Watching television?
   1. With her parents?
   1. With her grandmother?
   1. With her siblings?
7. How does she talk about the changes in her family and in the Hmong community?
   1. What can we learn from all this?
   1. What are the implications for Spanish language teaching and English language teaching?
8. What experiences have you had that are similar to hers?
   1. What about students?
9. What comparisons can we draw between her experiences and the experiences of other refugees?
10. What comparisons can we draw between her experiences and the experiences of other immigrants?
11. What connections can we find with other reading that we have been doing in this class?
12. How could we use what we are learning?
13. What other areas should we discuss?