This book would be very easy to incorporate into your high
school or middle school classroom. Due
to the fact that the main character is dealing with a lot of the same issues
that your students are dealing with, it would be very easy to tie in aspects of
the book and personalize it with the kids.
The key component that I feel the students could connect
with it that of bullying and being the victim of bullied. The fact that Arnold
deals with issues with his physical attributes, poverty level, and skin color
can mean that there is an array of issues that you can connect with your
students’ lives. Along with this concept of bullying, you could pull excerpts
and use them for anti-bullying month in October—Central Valley does this
recognition every year, I’m not sure what the other schools do. There are some
really good pieces of text that could be impactful for students.
Not only do I feel like students can connect with this text,
but I also enjoyed reading it and thinking back to my teenage years. I transferred
high schools mid-way through my sophomore year from a small town to a school
four times the size. I connected with a lot of the isolated and “different”
aspects that Arnold went through.
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