IN OUR OWN VOICES
                 
Unit 1: Respecting our Names
         You already possess everything necessary to become great.  Native American proverb  (Crow)

The Meaning and Origin
of Spanish Last Names

 nombres

Calendario de Santos

"My Name"
by Sandra Cisneros

 Nzingha Masani
 interview photo

African Names Site
Panamanian Mola Designs
Bird on a Branch		 A Nigerian Yoruba
Naming Ceremony
naming ceremony
 		 Kuba Cloth
 Kuba Cloth
 
The Human Family
by Maya Angelou

 		  

"I Am Ntozake Shange"
by Ntozake Shange

 

"Señora X No More"
by Pat Mora
"I Love to Hear"
by a 15 year old boy
 "My Real Name"
by a teenage girl
 

"I Am a Black"
by Gwendolyn Brooks

 
"Los nombres"
by Jorge Guillén
 "What's That Word Again?
by a high school junior

"Hissspanicsss"
by Elba Rosario Sánchez

  

"My Name's Not Rodríguez"
by Luis J. Rodriguez

In His Own Voice

"Nobody Knows My Name"
by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
 		 Unit 1 Outline Additional Name Poems
Written by Students

 

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