ECASD | Memorial High School | Library
Driven to tell her family's story—and the story of the Hmong people—Yang wrote The Latehomecomer as a "love letter" to her grandmother whose spirit held her family together through their imprisonment in Laos, their harrowing escape into Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, their immigration to Minnesota when Yang was only six years old, and their transition to a hard life in America.
8:30-9:32 (2nd hour) (9th & 11th grades)
10:38-11:40 (4th hour) (10th & 12th grades)
11:45-12:15, 12:40-1:10 (both lunches) book signing in the library (optional)
Book order form (due to the library by November 3)
Latehomecomer Summary.docx
Picture books by Kao Kalia Yang are posted in the hallway between the library and the cafeteria commons. Each book takes a small scene from The Latehomecomer and teases it out into a full story.
Activities include:
Use the mindmap in Credo search, assign students different sub topics about the Hmong culture and people they can then do a scavenger hunt on the topic to find some combination of the following:
Look at the evolution of Hmong culture: Have students create timelines with images and notes changes in the following:
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