by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Have students imagine Shin-chi’s first night at the school. Ask students: How might he be feeling? What about his older sister — how might she be feeling about sleeping there again? What might be different about this time? (Having her brother there now, having a...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: What do you predict might happen to the special canoe that Shi-shi-etko gives to her little brother? Will that canoe help Shin-chi to remember his memories from home?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: Why do the characters in the story have English names? How do you think they felt not being able to keep their own names? How would you feel if someone came and renamed you and you couldn’t be called your name anymore?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Like his sister in the previous book, Shin-chi looks at everything. Ask students: Does he look at the same things that Shi-shi-etko did? Why do you think that Shin-chi memorizes different things than she did?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: What teaching does Shi-shi-etko tell her brother? Do you think he will remember?
