When we get to the chapter that Lina's grandmother dies, I have a sheet that says: Text to Self, Text to Text, Text to World. I talk about my feelings of reading that her grandma died and how that reminds me of how I felt when both my grandmothers died. I tell them I can relate to what she is feeling with the emptiness because that's how I felt, never to see them again. We discuss some others students feelings or knowledge of death...maybe a family member or even something as simple as a pet...and how it made them feel. Then they write a text to self sentence.
Next, I ask them if this part reminds them of anything we have read as a class or something they have read. This year, it reminded them of Isabelle from Fortune's Magic Farm. She also lost her "grandmother". She was an orphan and felt all alone in the world. We discuss how Isabelle and Lina both felt, and then we write it under text to text.
Last, we discuss the part about the Dr. and how they are running out of medicine, or they don't have the equipment/tools needed to save Lina's grandmother. I talk about my personal experiences of growing up overseas in poorer countries and how they did not have the medicine there to heal them or the money. I ask the class if they have seen something on television this past year from around the world that reminds them of this. This year, the students talked about the tornadoes that hit the U.S. and the destruction it brought, with no medicine and equipment near by. They also talked about Japan and Haiti, connecting how medicine or supplies were lacking. Then they wrote their own connection under text to world.
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