Reading Assignment: pp.1-38 Number the Stars
Writing Assignments, Your Choice:
1. Write a review of Shooting Kabul. Start by describing the story in four or five sentences. Then, in the second paragraph, explain why you think the book is a good one for teenagers to read. What lessons about life does it offer the audience and why are these important lessons for young readers to learn.
2. When Fadi, along with Masood and the other boys lumped together (put into a group without much thought if the members really fit) under the label of terrorists, decide to teach Felix and Ike a lesson, they decide that beating the boys up is not the right way to teach them anything. What they have decided against is what we call in the U.S. “an eye for an eye” justice. This is when someone hurts you and you pay the person back by hurting him or her in return and in a similar way.
Do you think the Fadi and his friends made the right decision? Or do you think they should have paid the two boys back in kind (in the same way)? Please set the scene for your discussion of their decision, something like this: “When Fadi and his friends surround Ike and Felix in Shooting Kabul, they are ready to give the two bullies a dose of their own medicine. But they decide against it, choosing instead to (here is where you would say what the boys actually did and why this was a good or bad decision).”
