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Welcome to
Puente's monthly newsletter!
As many of you know, the Puente project is a
national-award winning program that has helped
thousands of educationally under- served students
succeed in school and college through teaching,
counseling, and also mentoring. Puente currently
serves students in 38 community colleges and 31
high schools throughout California.
The
Writing
Component:
The writing course is being taught by Rachel Bell,
who begins her second year with Puente and has been
a writing instructor at Skyline College since 1996.
The students' first writing project is a WHERE
paper which asks them to examine where they have
been, where they are now, and where might they be
going personally, culturally and also academically.
Then we will read The Red Camp by Debra Diaz
which examines the lives of migrant workers. Next
we will read Hunger of Memory by Richard
Rodriguez which is "a poignant journey of a
'minority student' who pays the cost of his social
assimilation and academic success with a painful
alienation-from his past, his parents, his
culture-and so describes the high price of 'making
it' in middle class America." Richard Rodriguez
will be speaking at Skyline on Thursday, October
10th at 7:30pm in Gallery Theatre. Finally, we will
read De Colores Means All of Us by Elizabeth
Martínez. For more info on the class visit:
http://www.smccd.net./accounts/bellr
The
Mentor
Component:
All Puente
students will be paired with a working professional
connected with the students' career goals and
interests. Mentors introduce students to their
workplaces; share their strategies for success; and
spend time with their mentee about 2-3 times per
semester for 1 school year.
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The
Counseling
Component:
Imelda
Hermosillo, who begins her first year with Puente
and has worked in Student Services at the 2-year
and 4-year schools for 17 years, is teaching the
Counseling course. In the Puente Counseling
Seminar, we will focus on strengthening student
academic success skills, guiding students in their
research, selecting academic majors and career
interests, and familiarizing students with higher
educational opportunities. The text we will be
using in called On Course-Strategies for
Creating Success in College and in Life by Skip
Downing.
Calendar
of Events for Fall 2002
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September
28th, Saturday 11am:
Students and Mentors meet as they tour
the Academy of Sciences Museum
in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
followed by a potluck lunch at 12:30pm
Cost of museum sponsored by Puente
* October
1st to October 14th:
Students meet with mentors to hang out
and
interview them for the WHERE paper
due Weds, October 16th
October 2nd,
Saturday 8am-4pm:
UC-Puente Student
Transfer/Motivational
Conference at UC Davis
Transportation and lunch provided
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December 7th,
Saturday 11-1pm:
Precita Eyes/ Balmy Lane
Mural Tour
Mission Cultural Arts Center Visit
and lunch in San Francisco
*Events that include Mentors and Amigos de
Puente
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