by boot | Feb 19, 2025
Read the introduction that Nicola I. Campbell wrote at the beginning of this story. Ask students: Why do you think the school wouldn’t allow the siblings to talk to each other? Imagine what that must have been like for the children and describe what emotions they...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
As a class, look at the cover and predict what this story might be about. What similarities are there between the cover of this book and the cover of Shi-shi-etko? Explain that this is the second book of the set and that the story is about Shi-shi-etko’s little...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
What miracle(s) happened in this story? How did Miriam’s understanding of miracles change or stay the same throughout the story? Before reading this story, you were asked to consider what a miracle is. How has your thinking about miracles changed or stayed the same by...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
When Miriam and Kate go to the drive-in theater to see the apparition, Miriam wonders: Is what we did bad or good? Yes, we fooled people, but if it makes them happy and gives them hope and saves the motel and the diner, is that so bad? What do you think? Was their...
by boot | Feb 19, 2025
In the sermon Miriam listens to at synagogue, the rabbi says that “[l]ife is not simply what happens to us. Life is what we do with what happens to us.” What do you think she means by this? What did Miriam and Kate do with the circumstances they were given, the...
