2nd hour fishbowl #3 over chapters 11-14 of A Long Way Gone, December 2, 2016

Good morning, all! To honor wishes of dissenting parties, today we'll use Coveritlive to capture our thinking and questions about our last few reading sections of A Long Way Gone.

As a reminder, to earn full credit for your work on the blog, be sure to...

• Employ effective writing strategies, such as carefully proofreading your work
• Contextualize your questions & defend your claims with quotes, not just page numbers, from the text.  Remember what we talked about last time about how those really specific questions & comments inspire better discussion.
• As we are using Coveritlive, which doesn't thread discussion, be sure to use the "@" symbol to make it clear to whom you are writing.

Also, I noticed there was some redundancy in posts.  Please be sure to read the comments that came before yours before your publish; I appreciate that can be tricky with Blogger.

Here are a couple of great posts from last time that exemplify the kind of work I'm looking for:

Kenny responded, "Along with him saying on page 78 'I should have killed the dog' there also was on page 81 where they talk about if they should eat the bird or not and there is also on page 84 where they say that they stole food that night. As Dom says this shows that there are many problems in the country with food and how hard it is to get some. It also shows that Beah and his friends will do whatever it takes just to get some food because of how hungry him and all his friends are. Maybe next time they run across an alive animal like a dog they will kill it just to get some source of food.

And Casey wrote, "On page 74, Ishmael talks about the story of the 'Bra Spider.' What is the importance of this story?"

And Natalie commented, "I do not think he will see his family again because on page 43 it states 'It was the last time I saw Junior, my older brother.'"

Also, Mac asked, "On page 85 '"This will do it.'"The man sprinkled some of the cold water from his bucket on Saidu. But Saidu didn't move... His palms were turned upside down and they were pale.' This is the only quote that does not describe the rebels killing people. Why did the author describe death in the book? Why did the author describe a boy that is 15 that died on his own in his sleep instead of one of the rebels killing him?"

Happy posting!

Live Blog 2nd hour fishbowl #3 over chapters 11-14 of A Long Way Gone, December 2, 2016

Live Blog 2nd hour fishbowl #3 over chapters 11-14 of A Long Way Gone, December 2, 2016