Having to do the questioning the text paper for class, I was excited to see what the other students thought about the book. I focused on the question of, how can we become more tolerant of a culture other than our own?
Although our group discussion did not going into my topic, we did start on the idea that Liyana never really expressed not wanting to leave. We all seemed to agree that if that was one of us, we had have flat out said, "I don't want to go". I feel that the book would have been more relatable to some children who have had to move if Liyana was a little bit more expressive.
The one thing in class that we discussed, as a whole, was how the book never really talked about the fighting in the middle east. I don't really know much about the fighting going on so if the book would have talked about it, I would have better grasped how Liyana didn't quite understand the problem with being friends with Omer.
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I think one's own surprise at how a character acts is an interesting prompt for a question. The trick is framing it so that you focus back on the book, not just your group's experiences.
So you might have asked about how Liyanna's sense of home changed as the story developed or how and what she resisted/accepted about the move or explore how Nye positions the reader to travel "with" Liyanna to a new place.
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