The International Book Club

Part 1 (pps. 1-80) – Zoom Session #1

• What is bullying like in your country or where you went to school when you were younger?
• How are your schooling experiences similar to and different from the author’s?
• What role does writing play in your life?

Part 2 (pps. 81-131) – Zoom Session #2

• What are your thoughts on family and identity? What makes a family? What makes up a person’s identity?
• When have you needed assurance that you could do something difficult? How did you get that assurance?
• What does your name mean? What does your name mean to you?
• What does this section/part of the book tell you about the power of perception? How does a person’s perspective shape their reality?

Part 3 (pps. 133-177) – Zoom Session #3

• This part shows us that people are very complicated. In what ways are you and your family complicated?
• This part shows us that memories can be based on what we want to believe. In what way is this true for you?

Part 4 (pps. 179-222) – Zoom Session #4

• How strong is your fear of disappointing your family and/or your parents?
• When is a time you really needed a sibling’s support? Did you get it?
• What languages were you “born to speak” as they author writes on page 191?
• Do you have a question you wish you could ask a parent?
• When was a time that you came to see people as full humans, or as “real people,” as the author writes on page 212?

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• Zoom Etiquette 
  
  
  
  

For guidelines when communicating with or about disabled people, please visit this website:

• Inclusive language: words to use and avoid when writing about disability 

When writing reflections, encourage your learners to use The Reflective Act Acronym (Nowak, 2020, pp. 135-136): 

R – recap your story (storytelling) 
E – evaluate (usefulness, utility) 
F – formulate (hypotheses) 
L – learn by teaching others (LbTo) 
E – experience (effects/consequences)  
C – create new meaning (frames of reference) 
T – think (positively) 
I – inquire (ask questions, try to answer them) 
V – venture (take a risk at expressing what you think) 
E – elaborate your process of learning (develop lifelong learning) 

A – achieve (goals)
C – challenge (ideas, beliefs, assumptions) 
T – transform (change yourself, reconstruct meaning) 

 Nowak, S. A. (2020). Refleksja w kształceniu językowym. Zastosowanie dzienników w nauczaniu zorientowanym na działanie. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego. Prace Monograficzne nr 992. (Translation: Reflection in language education. The use of journals in action-oriented teaching).