Entry Questions in Pairs
Did you have a teacher, mentor, family member, community organizer, or religious figure in your childhood who altered the course of your life or played a part in your success? Compare your experience with Dan-el’s.
Undocumented Chapters 3-4
During this difficult period of vulnerability for the family, Dan-el’s only refuge was a meager library. Jeff, a young volunteer met Dan-el and was struck by Dan-el’s passion for books and focus on learning. With Jeff’s help, Dan-el was accepted on scholarship to Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country.
Undocumented continues as a story about a quest for knowledge and the right to education. It is also a book that intervenes in the debate over comprehensive immigration reform.
Takeaways
In what ways did your views on immigration, and specifically undocumented immigrants, expanded through Dan-el’s story? What stood out from his particular case? Did your perspectives on the topic change in any way?
.Did you or a member of your family immigrate to the United States.? If so, what was that experience like, and how does it compare with that of Dan-el’s family?
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Group Discussion
How do these two chapters present the societal challenges Dan-el as an Afro-Dominican kid faced?
Compare his mother’s and Jeff, parenting/mentorship approach? How do they differ and how do they complement each other?