Premio Speciale per il saggio sull’emigrazione
Concorso Internazionale di Poesia e Narrativa
Levels 4-5
- High school students preparing for AP exam in Italian
- University reading and conversation courses
CULTURE
Non soltanto un baule
Edited by: Concetta Perna
Foreword by: Matilda Raffa Cuomo
This 10-story anthology captures the struggles that millions of Italians experienced in their search for a better life outside Italy. The immigrants’ stories, told through the voices of descendants or friends, richly express the emotion, pride and heartbreak of their emigration to the U.S., Australia, Argentina and Canada.
- Exercises for comprehension, discussion, research and writing
- Footnoted vocabulary with explanations in Italian
- Table of passato remoto verbs in three conjugations
- Cultural notes in English
- softcover, ISBN 978-0-9723562-5-1
"A courageous book, Non soltanto un baule will be the joy of many students who learn Italian in order to speak to their immigrant grandparents. Many of these students are in our classes and this is the first book that leverages their strong motivation to learn. It is also the first book that takes into account a story easily forgotten, a story of pain and will, the story of Italian emigration."
Ilaria Serra
Reviewer College Board AP Central
Reviewer College Board AP Central
"Non soltanto un baule, antologia storica della nostra emigrazione, č qualcosa di insolito. Non bada 'solo' a tecniche e materiali d'insegnamento, non suggerisce nuovi e originali approcci didattici alla nostra cultura e al nostro idioma, non costruisce cioč strutture di apprendimento e modi di 'intrattenere' gli studenti, ma va, semplicemente, al cuore. Non mancano, sia detto subito a scanso d'equivoci, esercizi, note grammaticali e culturali, ma la forza di queste pagine sta nei contenuti, semplici e patetici, che esse presentano."
Franco Borrelli
Review - America Oggi
Review - America Oggi