The Global Read Aloud is a great way to get students excited about literature because they have an authentic audience with whom they can connect about what they're reading. We look forward to sharing our thoughts with you and other students from across North America over the next 6 weeks!
This week, we are beginning our journey with the Global Read Aloud. This is an exciting time of year! Over the next 6 weeks, we will be reading a novel called "Fish" by L.S. Matthews that other classes across the continent (and the world!) will be reading at the same time. We will connect with other classes through Skype, blogging, and our class Twitter account (@msbunkerclass) to share our thoughts, questions, and inferences about the novel. Our novel is about a family who must flee their country for safety during a time of war. The main character, Tiger, makes a spontaneous decision to take a fish he finds in a puddle with his family on this journey. To introduce students to the theme of refugees, we watched the following TED talk video below. This video really got us thinking about things we take for granted in our lives, like education, and helped us imagine what life might be like in a refugee camp. We also read the first chapter of the novel today. We reflected on why the author might not tell us the main character's gender and what we might bring with us if we had to flee our country. We will blog about this topic later this week.
The Global Read Aloud is a great way to get students excited about literature because they have an authentic audience with whom they can connect about what they're reading. We look forward to sharing our thoughts with you and other students from across North America over the next 6 weeks!
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