by boot | Mar 12, 2025
Have each student select a planet and use the Internet or library resources to prepare a short research project on it, working with an adult if appropriate. Each report should include interesting facts about the planet, including physical description, size relative to...
by boot | Mar 12, 2025
Ask students to pretend they are journalists and have been asked to write a newspaper story about a caravan traveling from El Salvador to Tijuana. Many parts of the book are in the first person and can serve as quotations a reporter might gather from interviews;...
by boot | Mar 11, 2025
The Cat at the Wall has a very open-ended conclusion. What happens next? Have students write a story continuing Clare’s adventures. Will she find Omar? Will she “turn back” into a human? Will she go to live with Aaron? Will she continue to help bring peace in small...
by boot | Mar 11, 2025
Discuss with students the role of a reporter in communicating the news, and how a reporter’s point of view will affect how any news story is reported. Come together as a class and review the events at the end of The Cat at the Wall as they unfolded, from the home...
by boot | Mar 11, 2025
Come together as a class and discuss the themes of this book and how they are developed over the course of the story. Have each student select one for further analysis and reflection and write an essay about it. Have them track the development and presentation of the...
