For
my first literature collection, I am adding the book: How my parents learned to
eat. This book is written by Ina Friedman and illustrated by Allen Say. I chose
this book because I remember reading it in elementary school. This book really
helped me to see how other cultures loved. It may be a children's book, but it
is a story that really stuck with me for some reason. This book may be a little
old, but I think it would be great to have in the classrooms. This story is
about a little girl who is describing her family. She talks about how she uses
chopsticks and also a fork and knife. She also explains that her mother is Japanese,
and her father is an American sailor. The little girl then talks about how her
parents met, and the timeline of their relationship. This story is in the
genre of historical fiction. The characters could have been real and the events
also could have been real. The sailor in the story is deployed on a ship in
Japan, which is a true fact. The illustrations in this story are also very
good. The colors are really warm, and as true to the real thing as possible.
You can see all the illustrations of this book on Youtube. They have a video of
the book being read. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtSl_kUrPc&noredirect=1.
An activity that I would do to go along with this book is to have the children
interview a grandparent, and find out their background. Then the students would
have to tell the class what they learned and how it related to this story.
Some
questions I would ask to go along with this book would be:
1.
What country is the girl’s mother’s from?
2.
Why was John afraid to ask out Aiko?
3.
What is sukiyaki made from?
4.
Why did Aiko go to see great uncle?
5?
Why do the people in Japan bow and Americans shake hands?
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