Teacher Section

After possibly assigning this book as a summer read, an idea for an activity to do at the beginning of the school year (straight out of summer) is to arrange a meeting with the author! Students may create questions about the book and submit them to you so that you can check it. Then, after contacting the author and perhaps getting a response, your students can ask their questions directly to the author, making this a fun and engaging activity that will motivate students to actually complete the reading assignment.

As an extra credit activity, you could ask students to create their own review and analysis of a book they have read and believe would be appropriate for schools. After following the review structure explained on the website, your student could submit their review to my email and if it checks all of our boxes, it can get published!

After reading the book, you could assign a class project that could be fun to do and engaging! An idea for a project is for each student to pick a character from the book and do a visual project that represents the many aspects of the character and how the author portrays them. This could vary from a poster where each photo has a specific meaning or an abstract 3D model. The students could then submit a written blurb with a short explanation of how their presentation represents the character and present it to the class.