Kid Quixotes - A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One Room School Where

"In my years of experience as a writer and as a college professor, I have never seen anything like this: the love for language, the passion for discussion, clarity of mind, and humility of heart. Stephen Haff invents impossible projects and makes them possible." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive The unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher discover their voices and speak truth to power. Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar depression. At Still Waters, all agreed that there would only be one rule: "Everyone listens to everyone." And this has unlocked spectacular potential. Since 2016, the students have been collectively translating Don Quixote into English, taking the Spanish tale--a story about a dreamer who never gives up--and adapting it into a bilingual musical. Six-year old Sarah tells of her mother''s journey across the desert from Mexico riding on the back of a tiger. Alex, a very private teenager, sings her coming out song to standing ovations. As the kids perform their work across NYC, they learn that they belong in this country--their voices amplifying to deliver a message of diversity, love, hope, and resilience essential to us all.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Haff, Haff Stephen, Sarah Sierra
• Assisted by: Diana Conchado (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780062934062
• ISBN: 978-0-06-293406-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: INSPIRATION, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR AMERICAN VOICES, ART: History / General, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, LITERATURE: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, EDUCATION: ISSUES IN EDUCATION, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT: MOTIVATION, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Emigration & Immigration, EDUCATION: IN THE CLASSROOM, EDUCATION: Arts in Education, EDUCATION: Teaching / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General