Welcome to your online discussion of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky!
Together with members of your book group, you’ll be reading The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow over the next several weeks. Although you're not required to take notes while you read, it would be wise to keep track of important events and characters for your own clarification. You are, however, expected to participate regularly and thoughtfully in an online discussion of FOUR essential questions.
Here's how it works:
Divide your book roughly into thirds. You need to have read and blogged about each third by the due dates below.
There are two kinds of posts in this discussion: response and comment.
Response = direct response to the essential questions
Comment = comment on someone else’s posted response or comment
Post at least TWO responses for each third of your book (SIX overall).
You must respond at least once to each of the essential questions over the course of your reading. One of your six responses can be a “free-response" post.
Post at least TWO comments for each section of your book (SIX overall).
Due dates:
- Post your first set of responses and comments by Friday, May 17 (Red 3), and Monday, May 20 (Blue 1).
- Post your second set of responses and comments by Thursday, May 30 (Red 3), and Friday, May 31 (Blue 1).
- Post your third set of responses and comments by Friday, June 7 (Red 3), and Monday, June 10 (Blue 1).
- How does prejudice affect the lives of young people growing up?
- How and why are people prejudiced?
- How are justice & courage related?
- In what ways does this book refute the notion of the “single story”?
** Free-response option: Address another issue/episode/or passage in the book that you find significant for any reason.
Assessment:
To earn maximum credit, post thoughtful responses that are at least a few sentences in length—and carefully proofread! Do not misspell characters' or authors’ names! Also, be sure to include specific references to the text (either details or short quotations). Page numbers, too, are always helpful.
hi im sarah, from red 3
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ReplyDeleteI think that prejudice affects the lives of young people because they are surrounded by racism and they grow up around it thinking that it's a common thing that they can't fix.
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DeleteKyler, i can't figure out how to change my name from unknown
Deletei think prejudice affects the lives of children because it becomes normal for them, and when that prejudice goes away they don't know what to do. this book refutes the notion of the single story because it has multiple perspectives and tries to expose us to more than one way of looking at people.
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DeleteSarah, I agree with that statement that you can see all of the people's view points on each individual idea, or piece of the story, and it's a good way to understand that you shouldn't just base opinions on one persons story, but otherwise see their own perspectives on racism in this culture, to get an understanding of what you should think or believe based on facts, and others personal stories
DeleteYou're right, Sarah. Be sure to use quotes to support what you have to say. Has there been anything surprising about Rachel's life than you previously assumed? Did you make a quick judgement about Rachel to only discover later in the book that you were wrong? This is how we start to get rid of a single story...
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