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Maryland
TESOL 2005 Contest for English Language Learners - Final Winners
Theme: Good People Who Change Our Lives
This contest is sponsored in memory of a good person who changed our
lives and many others, Beth
Stiefel-ltoh.
Category I: Visual Arts
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Overall Winner - Ye-Rim
7th Grade, Murray Hill Middle School
Home Country: Korea, Advanced Level
Howard County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Linda Potsiadlo
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Elementary Gr. 2-3 First Place - Lily
Home Country: China, Intermediate Level
2nd Grade, Roland Park Elementary School
Baltimore County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Erika Heslin
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Elementary Gr. 4-5 First Place - Kimberly
Home Country: El Salvador, Intermediate Level
4th Grade, Carrolton Elementary School
Prince George's County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Debra Harley
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Middle School First Place - Claudia
Home Country: Peru, Intermediate Level
7th Grade, Murray Hill Middle School
Howard County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Linda Potsiadlo
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Category II: Poetry
In the night I stand.
Without a fan,
or no one really to lend me a hand.
Is that so? I whisper confused
as the memories of my life begin to ooze.
In every memory my mom is there
as if she was the sun up in the air.
I as the earth wander about,
but her radiance is there without a doubt.
My mom is the one who changed my life.
She started the motors who gave me my flight.
I have not once stood alone at night,
she was rooming in my heart, just not in sight.
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Overall Winner - David
12th Grade, Patuxent High School
Calvert County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Nancy Taylor
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Elementary First Place - Edgar
Home Language: Spanish, Intermediate Level
3rd Grade, Bellows Spring Elementary School
Howard County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Pat Heinz
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The Person Who Changed My Life
is My Mother
I am the first child from my Mother,
Our bond together is like no other.
I help around the house,
and also when we go to the store,
helping her out is fund and it
doesn't feel like a chore.
My mother cook my favorite food
and put me in fantastic mood.
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My mother likes
to talk to her
friend on her spare time,
She likes to laugh it help
her to unwinded. |
My mother came to this country
for a better life for me,
and I will prove it to her
just you wait and see.
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Haiku
My (unborn) Son
My little baby
He will change my thinking now.
Son - my pequeño.
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Middle School First Place - Sayyam
Home Country: Pakistan, Advanced Level
6th Grade, West Frederick Middle School
Frederick County Public School System
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Dawn Hardgrave |
Adult Ed. First Place - Javier
Dominguez
Home Country: Honduras, Intermediate Level
Carroll Community College
Sponsoring ESOL Teacher: Paula Hendricks |
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