Discuss the author's use of dialect* and how dialect makes the various characters believable/authentic. How do things change when people are simply trying to survive? What things in our culture do we think are extremely important but really aren't?ģ. Make a chart with two columns and list how she seems human on one side and how she is truly just a doll on the other.Ģ. It was fun for students to see a photo of her and to learn that she was only 6 inches tall.ġ. We looked at the Hitty Preble website and read together about the original Hitty. This was kind of like a big kid Show and Tell time. I asked each student to bring in an antique item to discuss. Voting with the papers allows shy students to stay anonymous yet give their true opinions. Pass out small papers and let students write one of the following on the paper: love it, like it, hate it. Our fourth book for our Bibliovores Class was Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field.
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