Guide
Teaching Enrique's Journey
This guide provides activities and discussion questions for leading your students through a six-week reading of Enrique's Journey that explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices.
Subject
- English & Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
Language
English — USUpdated
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Date of Publication:
May 2022
This six-week unit is designed to support teachers and students as they read Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sonia Nazario's book Enrique's Journey. The unit explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices by asking students to consider the ways in which human migration can affect newcomers and their descendants, as well as their countries of origin and the countries where they settle.
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About This Guide
Students revisit the following essential questions throughout the unit:
- Why do people migrate? What factors influence people’s decisions to leave their home countries, often risking their lives in the process?
- How can learning someone’s immigration story help us understand the complexity of global migration and the emotional and physical challenges for the human beings involved?
How to Cite This Guide
Facing History & Ourselves, “Teaching Enrique's Journey”, last updated September 26, 2022.
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