I /felt Like I Was From Another Planet

I Felt Like I Was from Another Planet: Writing from Personal Experience
(Addison-Wesley, 1994)

This book features a teacher resource guide as well as students' stories of cultural adjustment. Helps students with the process writing as they explore cultural differences and their own feelings of alienation or confusion.

Inside "I Felt Like I Was From Another Planet":
When the new Cambodian student starts school for the first time in the U.S., her classmates pinch her. Shocked and in pain, she bursts into tears. Why?

It's St. Patrick's Day, an unknown holiday in Cambodia, and she isn't wearing green. Pinching is a reminder that you're supposed to observe the wearin' of the green on March 17th.

A unique resource containing 15 student-written stories that explain problems of cultural adjustment that each child has faced. This novel approach not only encourages students to welcome cultural diversity but also teaches a specific kind of process writing particularly relevant to the social development of this age group. (Grades 4-8) 176 pp.


Book is in good shape however coffee spill on edges, small amount dripped into from back of book, sorry was laying on desk and the inevitable happened. Minor cover wear. No marks inside book.