The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote/El cuento del conejo y el coyote

 

About the Reviewers: My name is Jennifer Montano, and I am part of the Elementary Education Cohort 2 through Northern Arizona University (NAU). I was born in Neptune, New Jersey and moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1993, when I was 10 years old. I am the oldest of my siblings, and I have a wonderful five-year-old son, named Zachary, who started kindergarten this year. He is my biggest inspiration. I feel very comfortable in a classroom full of students, and I am eager to begin on my journey of teaching. I believe that being a teacher requires you to learn as well as teach. I consider myself a life-long learner. (Fall 2005)   My name is Marla Tapia, and I am a student at NAU in the BS in Elementary Education program. I was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and immigrated to the United States when I was ten years old. I am the oldest of three kids. After I moved to Nogales, Arizona, on the U. S.-Mexico border, I saw that many people just like me move to other places where they have to learn a newlanguage and culture. I grew up being a bilingual child, and I had a big responsibility, to teach or help my younger brother and sister learn a new language, even if it was sometimes frustrating. When I started high school, my interest was helping others by helping them understand the American language, the way some teachers had helped me when I moved here. When I graduated from Nogales High School, I didn't have the best scores in anything, but I had the inspiration to some day become a helpful person. Since then I have been working toward achieving my goals of becoming that person, a future teacher like my special fifth-grade teacher or my Spanish teacher. This is who I am. (Fall 2005)

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