![]() ![]() What was Mia’s job at the hotel? What characteristics she have to make her flourish doing that job?.It can be used as a platform for students to discuss issues that they can relate to. It gives a message to students on how important it is to fight for what’s right and to learn to treat others with respect, regardless of what they look like. ![]() Teachers’ Tools for Navigation: This book would be useful in a classroom because it discusses real life topics like immigration, racism, poverty, bullying and even fraud. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. It will take all of Mia’s courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language? Yao, finds out they’ve been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. ![]() Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. ![]() Today, I am happy to share the classroom uses and discussion questions found by my UCF Elementary Education students for some historical fiction books they read. We started with picture books for practice then students created them in their book clubs each week. One of the assignments during my Spring Children’s Literature course at UCF was creating a mini-teaching guide for the books we read for book clubs. ![]()
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