Speak, Artifact, Speak! SPI GED PLUS:Paperback celebrating the transformative power and

celebrating the transformative power and resilience of the human spirit on an epic

The Faces of Son Jarocho combines interviews and portraits using printmaking as a medium

worked over flaming cauldrons through the night

becoming a minister and preaching the word of God

and achieve their goals

Speak, Artifact, Speak! SPI GED PLUS:Paperback celebrating the transformative power andSpeak, Artifact, Speak is the culmination of a classroom project with ESL and literacy students at the Alternative Education Complex of District 79s GED Plus Program. The authors represent students from across the globe as well as from New York City. The writers were asked to choose an important personal artifact and delve into why it held such signifigance in their lives. They worked intensively and collaboratively to revise, edit, and develop these