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Book The Teaching of Italian in the United States

Download or read book The Teaching of Italian in the United States written by Joseph Guerin Fucilla and published by New Brunswick, N.J : American Association of Teachers of Italian. This book was released on 1967 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The teaching of Italian in the United States

Download or read book The teaching of Italian in the United States written by Joseph Guerin Fucilla and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Study of Italian in the United States

Download or read book The Study of Italian in the United States written by Mario Emilio Cosenza and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Teaching of Italian in the United States

Download or read book The Teaching of Italian in the United States written by Edoardo A. Lèbano and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Teaching of Italian in the United States

Download or read book The Teaching of Italian in the United States written by Bruno Roselli and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teaching Italian American Literature  Film  and Popular Culture

Download or read book Teaching Italian American Literature Film and Popular Culture written by Edvige Giunta and published by Modern Language Association of America. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian American studies has long been in conversation with American culture at large and is increasingly present in American universities and colleges. Yet once-celebrated works, such as Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete, have slipped from the public consciousness, and many scholars fear that representations of Italian Americans in popular culture, as in The Godfather films and the television series The Sopranos, have obscured genuine historical inquiry and understanding. This volume aims to foster a deeper and more complex appreciation for the importance of Italian American texts in the study of American culture.The editors open the volume by outlining the history of Italians in the United States and exploring the potential of literature and the arts to enable the recovery of a forgotten, even repressed, historical past. Over thirty scholars and teachers then present innovative ways of teaching Italian American texts and integrating them with other texts in courses ranging from American literature and history to multiethnic and women's studies. Contributors discuss Italian American fiction, poetry, memoir, oral history, and theater and performance. A section on film and television provides an overview of popular as well as lesser-known works and interrogates the stereotyped portrayals of Italian Americans. Other contributors offer historical and interdisciplinary approaches to Italian American texts that revolve around themes of race and gender politics, work and social class, and historical intersections. The volume concludes with a review of anthologies that can be used in teaching Italian American studies.

Book Teaching the Early History of Italian Americans in the United States Through Italian American Literature in an Eleventh Grade U S  History Classroom

Download or read book Teaching the Early History of Italian Americans in the United States Through Italian American Literature in an Eleventh Grade U S History Classroom written by Michael J. Pastore and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Italian Education

Download or read book An Italian Education written by Tim Parks and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves” (The New Yorker). “Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Book Italian Language Maintenance Efforts in the United States and the Teacher of Italian in American High Schools and Colleges

Download or read book Italian Language Maintenance Efforts in the United States and the Teacher of Italian in American High Schools and Colleges written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong influence on the nature of Italian instruction today in the United States is the fact that Italo-Americans show less organized interest in their language than do other ethnic groups, as evidenced by comparing newspaper publications in different mother tongues, radio language programs, and language maintenance associations where, in each case, other languages outdistance proportionately the same activities in Italian. More students and teachers of Italian than those of other major commonly taught languages are "appropriate ethnics" (one whose parent(s) or grandparent(s) are or were native speakers of the language under consideration), who associate the language with people, food, and daily life rather than with more elevated linguistic or literary concepts. The future of Italian seems to be only greater de-ethnization, less familiarity on the part of the individual with his regional Italian, and fewer students of the language as their "Italianness" recedes further into the background because of a higher socio-economic level and a more urban-American way of life. This speech was delivered at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Chicago, December 27-29, 1965.

Book Sons of Italy

Download or read book Sons of Italy written by Antonio Mangano and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Italian Community and Its Language in the United States

Download or read book The Italian Community and Its Language in the United States written by Francesco Cordasco and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of New York State

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Book All the Way to America  The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel

Download or read book All the Way to America The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel written by Dan Yaccarino and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text and warm, colorful illustrations, Yaccarino recounts how the little shovel was passed down through four generations of this Italian-American family—along with the good advice. It’s a story that will have kids asking their parents and grandparents: Where did we come from? How did our family make the journey all the way to America? “A shovel is just a shovel, but in Dan Yaccarino’s hands it becomes a way to dig deep into the past and honor all those who helped make us who we are.” —Eric Rohmann, winner of the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit “All the Way to America is a charmer. Yaccarino’s heartwarming story rings clearly with truth, good cheer, and love.” —Tomie dePaola, winner of a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona

Book New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture

Download or read book New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture written by Emanuele Occhipinti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture fills a major gap in existing scholarship and textbooks devoted to the teaching of Italian language and culture. A much-needed project in Italianistica, this collection of essays offers case studies that provide a coherent and organized overview of contemporary Italian pedagogy, incorporating the expertise of scholars in the field of language methodology and language acquisition from Italy and four major countries where the study of Italian has a long tradition: Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. The twenty four essays, divided into six main parts, offer a tremendous variety of up-to-date approaches to the teaching of Italian as a foreign language and L2, ranging from theoretical to more practical, hands-on strategies with essays on curricular innovations, technology, study abroad programs, culture, film and song use as effective pedagogical tools. Each case study introduces a systematic approach with an overview of theory, activities and assessment suggestions, collection of research data and syllabi. The book addresses the needs of instructors and teacher trainers, putting in perspective different examples that can be used for more effective teaching techniques according to the ACTFL guidelines and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Book Beetlecreek

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  • Author : William Demby
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 1617030864
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Beetlecreek written by William Demby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek’s black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are searching for acceptance, something that will give meaning to their lives. Bill tries to find it through good will in the community. Johnny finds it in the Nightriders, a local gang. David Diggs, the boy’s dispirited uncle, aspires to be an artist but has to settle for sign painting. David and Johnny’s new friendship with Bill kindles hope that their lives will get better. David’s marriage has failed; his wife’s shallow faith serves as her outlet from racial and financial oppression. David’s unhappy routine is broken by Edith Johnson’s return to Beetlecreek, but this relationship will be no better than his loveless marriage. Bill’s attempts to unify black and white children with a community picnic is a disaster. A rumor scapegoats him as a child molester, and Beetlecreek is titillated by the imagined crimes. This novel portraying race relations in a remote West Virginia town has been termed an existential classic. “It would be hard,” said The New Yorker, “to give Mr. Demby too much praise for the skill with which he has maneuvered the relationships in this book.” During the 1960s Arna Bontemps wrote, “Demby’s troubled townsfolk of the West Virginia mining region foreshadow present dilemmas. The pressing and resisting social forces in this season of our discontent and the fatal paralysis of those of us unable or unwilling to act are clearly anticipated with the dependable second sight of a true artist.” First published in 1950, Beetlecreek stands as a moving condemnation of provincialism and fundamentalism. Both a critique of racial hypocrisy and a new direction for the African American novel, it occupies fresh territory that is neither the ghetto realism of Richard Wright nor the ironic modernism of Ralph Ellison. Even after fifty years, more or less, William Demby said in 1998, “It still seems to me that Beetlecreek is about the absence of symmetry in human affairs, the imperfectability of justice the tragic inevitability of mankind’s inhumanity to mankind.”

Book A New Language  A New World

Download or read book A New Language A New World written by Nancy C. Carnevale and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.

Book Progress and Trends in Italian Education  Studies in Comparative Education

Download or read book Progress and Trends in Italian Education Studies in Comparative Education written by Anthony A. Scarangello and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: