Noticing Sentences

An eye-opening book about cacao harvest. Your activist and agricultural students will enjoy this book. I didn't have as many quotes that I marked while reading this one, but here they are. I felt like they were the kind of sentences that state things that might make students think. Surprising statements or different ways of thinking. They could easily be applied to many different topics in the classroom. A different way of thinking-- how do students respond? Given her height, she's probably a little younger than me, maybe thirteen or fourteen, but she's not as skinny as most of the girls I knew at home. Maybe the drought is over if people have food to spare on girls. p 10 The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan "You're like the bosses?" he gasps. That had been my first thought too. " Ayi , Seydou," she says earnestly. "I just grew up in the same country as them, but that does not make me like them." p207   The Bitter Side of S...

I just really like this part. Casual mention of LGBT, cute, sweet idea about spouses. I loved the whole idea of Ayen as a character in this book. But in accordance to their beliefs about death, Ayen was still with her, doing those little annoying things that wives do, like make you drop your breakfast or trip over a coil of rope.  p54 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig This is a good sentence to get students to think. Do they agree? We have shelves full of maps of places that only used to exist. Everything unique is vanishing. p 72 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig   The awkwardness of how we speak actually put on the page-- unknown antecedent On one of our rides through Ka'a'awa Valley, we discovered a trail leading to an ancient temple, back behind the abandoned sugar mill. I've sketched it on the next page. They say human sacrifices were made there. At the temple, not the sugar mill. p 117 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig   More a...