{"id":4378,"date":"2022-04-14T23:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:38:36","slug":"almostamerican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/almostamerican\/","title":{"rendered":"*Almost* American: A Book Chat and Zine-Making Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4394\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/04\/40030311._SY475_-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/04\/40030311._SY475_-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/04\/40030311._SY475_.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Program date: Tuesday, May 17th<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This online workshop opened with conversation about teachable moments in Robin Ha\u2019s\u00a0<i>Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir<\/i>\u2014 e.g. isolation immigrants experience when overcoming culture shock and adjusting to a new language, school, employment, and social life.<i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>After the discussion, the group created a personal identity zine page together while discussing ways to adapt this project for students.<\/p>\n<p>Participants received a copy of\u00a0<i>Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir<\/i>\u00a0by Robin Ha in advance to read and discuss during the workshop and free WA OSPI clock hours.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Workshop leader\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"markdtm3cvam7\">Kathy<\/span>\u00a0Whitham is a tenured English instructor at South Seattle College where she teaches Literature (Asian American Lit, YA Lit, and Graphic Novels), Humanities, Film Studies, Creative Writing, and Composition.<\/p>\n<p><em>This program was sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington,\u00a0and funded by a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nctasia.org\/\">National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program date: Tuesday, May 17th This online workshop opened with conversation about teachable moments in Robin Ha\u2019s\u00a0Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir\u2014 e.g. isolation immigrants experience when overcoming culture shock and adjusting to a new language, school, employment, and social life.\u00a0\u00a0After the discussion, the group created a personal identity zine page together while discussing ways<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/almostamerican\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-programs","tag-immigration","region-western-washington","research-theme-3-5","research-theme-6-8"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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