"You carry a Dinka name.  It is the name of your father and your ancestors before him.....Remember, you will always be a Dinka.  You will be Sangoel.  Even in America."

Content Area Connections:

Language Arts: Exploring identity, names, and storytelling.
Social Studies: Immigration, refugee experiences, cultural identity, global connections.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Empathy, resilience, self-advocacy, and valuing diversity.
Art: Visual representation of personal names and cultural symbols.

Primary Source Connection: 

• Immigration Challenges for New Americans Primary Source Set
• Sudanese refugee women and children, Library of Congress photograph
• Hear refugee stories from real people at Story Corps

 

Other Books: 

• A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home (PK-4)
• Home in a Lunchbox (PK-2)