Eric Walters' new novel Cat (info for grade 7 & 8s), Novel studies

As we continue to do our our novel study about citizenship and the role of the individual in community, we are part of a new Eric Walters project.

Remember - Grade 7s should read up to page 103 in the Breadwinner. Here is an example of a youtube.com/searchstories for the second book "The Breadwinner"
For your culminating activity you can create your own search story or create a movie trailer of The Breadwinner.
Grade 8s read up to page 120. Iqbal (a short film)
Both groups will prepare a scene by creating a Reader's Theatre script this week's writing assignment. It is suggested that students read every night and finish the book so the final project will involve re-reading, and reading over parts of the book - not just reading the novel for the first time.


We will also be reading    Eric Walters' new novel. Tweet (twiducate) responses to each of the five questions below. We'll go through 1-3 this week and 4-6 next week.

Here is the information about the Eric Walters Cat novel project.

The TDSB started on Dec. 9 (chapters 1-3). Today, (Jan. 10th) the next three chapters are available. I have them stored digitally on our student shared drive in the folder CAT. 

We will be "catching up" until the next installment Jan. 24th.

Please respond to each of the questions with your twiducate sign-on.

We will read these chapters in class together.

Eric Walters' new book - Reading response questions for chapters 1-3.

1)      How many different countries were students in your class born in?

2)      On page 4 should it be ‘A and A+ or Level 4 and 4+ or something else completely?

3)      Simon says he is Canadian.  What makes you a Canadian – is it being born here, living here a long time, becoming a Canadian citizen?  Can you proudly be from two places at the same time?

4)      What did Mr. Singh mean by a wicket?  Has anybody ever played cricket?

5)      PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, start making suggestions for a title.

Reading response questions for chapters 4 - 6.

Week 2 Comments and Questions – Chapters 4, 5, and 6

1)      Is Aminder a good name for a boy who is Sikh?  Can you suggest another name.

2)      Do more students speak Mandarin or Cantonese in your school/class/group?

3)      Are those numbers right; 850 million who speak Mandarin and 70 million who speak Cantonese?

4)      Can you suggest some other traditional ‘Canadian’ foods to put into this section?

5)      How many pages do you read a week?  How many pages does your class read?  Would it be fun to track it week by week?

6)      How many languages can you say or write ‘hello’ in your class.  What languages should be used in the book?