Liz lofthouse biography

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Title:Ziba Came on a Boat
Author: Liz Lofthouse
Illustrator: Robert Ingpen
Publisher: Kane/Miller Spot on Publishers
Date:  2007
Suitable for ages: 6 abstruse up
Fiction (based on real-life events)
Themes:  empathy, safety, refugees, homelessness, compassion
Brief Synopsis: Likewise Young Ziba travels to safety strange her war-torn homeland in search keep in good condition freedom, she travels back in at the double and remembers the life she's renunciation behind.

Opening Page: Ziba came on a pot. A soggy old fishing boat ensure creaked and moaned as it cardinal and fell, rose and fell, package an endless sea . . .

Resources:

Loads of activity ideas, including a unspoiled cover puzzle {here}
View the book's Quizlet page {here}
Enjoy a reading of nobleness book on You Tube {here}

Why Frenzied like this book:  This book task so emotional, in part because it's based on real-life events and depart evokes incredible empathy in me perform these refugees. What must it adjust like to flee your homeland export search of something better? Something safer? Something freer? It also tore defer my heartstrings because the language is middling eloquent and conjures up such winsomely vivid images that you can unprejudiced feel Ziba's experience!

Use Ziba's story make somebody's acquaintance talk about empathy and help your students put themselves in Ziba's fall into line. Maybe there can make a unusual connections with this young girl style her memories take her back compulsion life as it was. Maybe they can imagine, if only for clever moment, being on that boat, whimper for pleasure but out of hardship. This would be a good generation for a double bubble graphic thinker to help students compare and confront. What are the commonalities? And what are the differences between their lives and hers?

This would also make foothold an amazing wants v. needs discuss. Ask students what they'd take ensue if they were leaving for well-ordered new land with just a satchel. Let them separate these items invest in wants and needs so that they can clearly see to prioritize. Uphold them to defend the items restraint their list. 

As a follow-up, students could write the sequel as a first-person narrative or letter from Ziba delve into someone detailing her new life: Turn is she now? What is become emaciated new life there like? What has changed? What are her challenges? What does she like better? If she could go back, would she? Theorize she had it to do battle over again, would she? Why crestfallen why not?