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Booktalk
#1
"Red Scarf girl" is about a
young girl growing up in Shanghai,china.The book is tall in her on compelling
words also with alittle bit about her family and friends. the begin of
the story starts with her being at school. While she's at scool she meets
aliberation army dancer with pretty long black hair. Two of the children
were picking out of her class to go with the liberation army dancer and
princpal Long. they were all wondering why they was picking. So they went
with her did some stretching and been ask to be in occured positions. The
liberation Army dancer was impressed with Ji Li Jiang stretching and how
flexible she was so she asked her to join the liberation army dance. So
she went home so happy and couldn't wait to tell her parent's. But her
father said she couldn't join because of something that happen in the family
past. I will leave that for you to find out. (Arleka Raynor, Herford
County Middle School)
Booktalk #2
What would you do if you were
told you had to testify against your family or risk losing your own future?
What if you were told to reveal a secret your family didn’t want known
or your frail grandma would be made to suffer? These are decisions
12 year old Ji Li had to face during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
This was a time when many innocent people were humiliated, tortured and
even killed just because they were middle class or wealthy. Though
these years were confusing and painful, Ji Li showed great courage and
independent thinking during a period when many people were being brainwashed
by the Chinese government. (Davinna Artibey, Denver Center for International
Studies, DPS, CO) |
