On Wednesday, some of the fifth graders started a new book: Tuck Everlasting. It’s a fantasy book—our first of the year, and so first, we unpacked what a fantasy book is. After reading about the genre, we found that fantasy writing is more than just text that’s make-believe or grounded in the imagination. Good fantasy stories push us to ask ourselves larger questions and ponder larger concepts in our own lives.
Now, we’re less than 20 pages into Tuck, and students have already posed all sorts of guesses as to what the big question examined in this book may be. Their excitement is contagious!
The students can’t wait until next class to see what happens next in the novel. I can’t wait to see what insights, questions, and inferences the students come up with next! Good stuff.
I love this book and I can't wait to discass it on Friday.I have made some predictions ane I really want to see what other people thought about chapter 12.
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