Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Tiger Rising ;)


 
In Art class this semester we got together in groups to compose a play that corresponded with a scene in the book our group read.  We decided to choose a very important place in the story which was when the main character introduced another character (his friend, Sistine) to a tiger that he had found in the woods.  The tiger is the center of the book and leads the characters to their own realizations about life.  I found the book to be interesting but the ending was sad.  I’m not sure if this is a book I would read with my students in class.  Obviously, it would depend on their age, but it also may depend on how well I knew my students in order to gauge how they would react.  I do like that some may be able to relate to the characters which would be beneficial and it could teach them empathy hearing the characters’ point of view even if they could not relate.

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