1 step to my new life

Grade Levels: High School, Middle School Types: Lessons Questions: How should we teach about migration?, Who are the young people we are educating?

I wasn’t happy to be here

But it was necessary.

1 step to my new life

Maybe could become a dream

Or a nightmare.

1 step to my new life

New faces, new languages, new culture

1 step to my new life

If America is the future

The fresh start starts now.

~ Rebeca Martins, 17 years old, Brazil

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