The Challenges of Translation

This book was translated from French into English. Often we overlook the role a translator plays in the experience we have in reading a book. Locate a passage in electronic form from a suitable work written in a foreign language, perhaps coordinating with a foreign...

Create a Sequel

At the end of the book, Hélène and Géraldine have plans to visit each other during summer vacation. Review with the class the roles that the basic elements of a graphic novel (such as text, word balloons, panels and illustrations) have in telling a story. Based on...

Describe What it’s Like to Move

Students who have moved can write about their experience. Students who have not can write about a place they’d like to move to.

Compare Two Places

Let students choose two places they are familiar with and write about or draw pictures of the similarities and differences.

Would You Rather: City or Country?

What words and phrases are particularly vivid in describing living in the city? Living on the prairies? Is either place familiar to someplace students know? Where would students rather live? Write a paragraph explaining their choice.