by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: What does the mom want Shi-shi-etko to remember? What emotion or feeling does the mother want her daughter to remember when she is away from the family? How do you know? Curriculum Connections: Health (Well-Being, Families)
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Ask students: What do you think is the underlying theme of the story? What do you believe the author is trying to teach us by writing this story? What is the author’s message?
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
When Shi-shi-etko and Shin-chi are traveling to the residential school, the dust on the road hurts their eyes and noses and is said to be following them like a snake. On the way home from the school, the dust “rose around the cattle truck like a great big butterfly.”...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
In the story, it says that when winter arrives Shin-chi is feeling lonely. Ask students: How could he be feeling lonely when he is surrounded by so many other children? Can you think about a time when you were lonely? Share with the class.
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...
