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The subject today is homophones: kernel and colonel, boarders and borders, hostel and hostile.
English, with its unreliable vowels and its quirky exceptions to the rules, is Mona Kashani Heern's language now -- the one whose sly nuances she enthusiastically explains to her students at Joel P. Jensen Middle School in West Jordan on this January morning.See the full content of this document
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Heern can't imagine a place she'd rather be than this windowless room full of seventh-graders, even when the subject is just a list of spelling words.
"I was the lucky one who got to come to this country, who got to become a teacher," she explains later. "But in Iran, there are thousands and thousand...See the full content of this document
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