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Luisana Sanchez
Luisana Sanchez

Carmen Tafolla is a San Antonio native poet and author known for her bilingual works celebrating Latino culture. She is one of the pioneering Latina writers in the genre of Chicana literature. Tafolla's published works include children's books that use techniques like imagery and rhyme to showcase everyday Latino traditions and objects. Her poetry and prose also address themes of human experience and culture. Tafolla's works are used in classrooms to help students share and learn about their own cultural traditions.

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Carmen Tafolla I didnt choose writing as a career. Writing chose me
(Mary) Carmen Tafolla San Antonio native PhD in bilingual education from U.T. One of the most anthologized of Latina writers One of the madrinas of Chicana Literature Master of bilingual poetic code switching
Awards Americas award Two Tomas Rivera Book Awards Charlotte Zolotow award for Best Childrens Picture book of 2010 Art of Peace Award Inducted into the San Antonio Womens Hall of Fame
Techniques and Themes Techniques: Themes: Poems employ the Latino culture bilingual idiom of Traditions San Antonios Celebrations barrios Human beings Rhymes and playful writing Repetition of words
Published Works Children books What Can You Do with a Rebozo? What Can You Do with a Paleta? Thats Not Fair!: Emma Tenayucas Struggle for Justice Baby Coyote and the Old Woman Fiesta Babies
Published Works cont. Prose and Poetry The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans Sonnets and Salsa Sonnets to Human Beings
What Can You Do with a Rebozo? She uses Imagery
What Can You Do with a Paleta?
Fiesta Babies she uses rhyme
Classroom Use Social studies Students get the chance to share their culture and/or family traditions with the class. Students can find items in their culture that are similar to a rebozo, or objects that can be used as much as a rebozo can be used. They can bring the item for a show and tell
Classroom use cont. Students can come up with their own ideas on how they can use a rebozo. They can work in groups and each come up with an idea. In a vertical accordion book students will draw out their ideas. Students will then explain the ideas they came up with.

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Author presentation carmen tafolla

  • 1. Carmen Tafolla I didnt choose writing as a career. Writing chose me
  • 2. (Mary) Carmen Tafolla San Antonio native PhD in bilingual education from U.T. One of the most anthologized of Latina writers One of the madrinas of Chicana Literature Master of bilingual poetic code switching
  • 3. Awards Americas award Two Tomas Rivera Book Awards Charlotte Zolotow award for Best Childrens Picture book of 2010 Art of Peace Award Inducted into the San Antonio Womens Hall of Fame
  • 4. Techniques and Themes Techniques: Themes: Poems employ the Latino culture bilingual idiom of Traditions San Antonios Celebrations barrios Human beings Rhymes and playful writing Repetition of words
  • 5. Published Works Children books What Can You Do with a Rebozo? What Can You Do with a Paleta? Thats Not Fair!: Emma Tenayucas Struggle for Justice Baby Coyote and the Old Woman Fiesta Babies
  • 6. Published Works cont. Prose and Poetry The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans Sonnets and Salsa Sonnets to Human Beings
  • 7. What Can You Do with a Rebozo? She uses Imagery
  • 8. What Can You Do with a Paleta?
  • 9. Fiesta Babies she uses rhyme
  • 10. Classroom Use Social studies Students get the chance to share their culture and/or family traditions with the class. Students can find items in their culture that are similar to a rebozo, or objects that can be used as much as a rebozo can be used. They can bring the item for a show and tell
  • 11. Classroom use cont. Students can come up with their own ideas on how they can use a rebozo. They can work in groups and each come up with an idea. In a vertical accordion book students will draw out their ideas. Students will then explain the ideas they came up with.