Mirror

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But it also makes me reflect on the similarities in the lives of people all over the world - we're all just family members at the end of the day. As my ideas slowly evolved, the oblong boxes grew larger until each was eventually the size of a page of the book I hoped would interest my publisher. First we walk to the oldest part of the village, where there is a beautifully detailed Kasbah, though it is starting to crumble. I also like that the book centers around family life: eating together, working on projects together, doing chores as a family and going on outings together.

The story centers around a young boy named Elliot who lives in America and Kailash, another boy who lives in India. I would like to see more books like this, turning the two pages at once was an interesting way to read a story. The Moroccan family unit also includes the grandparents who live with the family and share in family life.And soon we had arranged to meet at 3am the next morning, though I would need to find a mule to ride on. Use our Similarities and Differences Recording Worksheet for your students to make connections to themselves and record their visual comparisons. The woman shows her husband the finished carpet and he carefully places it over the mule’s back, puts a sheep in each of the mule’s saddlebags and ties a couple of hens up: he’s hoping to sell these animals too at the souk. We see that in the context of strikingly different lifestyles, remotely different countries, landscapes, differences of clothing and all.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The Arabic side opens as the Arabians are used to and the story is meant to be enjoyed by flipping the pages to the right.I decide to stay in Hadida the following day and explore the gorge more slowly and try to meet women weavers in the villages. All Super Six strategies are addressed except for monitoring, as this is more difficult for a shorter picture book text.

There is so much to look at in this story that it must be flipped through and analyzed more than once. This is a great book that I think all kids would enjoy because of how different the format of it is and it really tells an important story without actually using any words. The Americans are all in very different clothes while the Arabians dress in different head coverings of similar fabrics. The clothing they wear and the food they eat may be different, but both begin the day by dressing, and by having the breakfasts prepared by their mothers.And further on (closer to the Dades Valley) Lassan takes me to another series of caves, where an extended nomadic family are currently living, their hens and sheep are in another cave close by. Consequently I decided to make a special trip to Taznakht, to try and understand the basic design and symbols underlying their carpets, which it seems the women in the Valley of Roses have been much influenced by. The resource comes in the form of five, two-page worksheets, plus additional templates and teaching ideas with suggestions on how to turn a number of the worksheet activities into more interactive classroom activities. The moon standing out allows for the reader to make the connection that the moon appears wherever you are on Earth. The book, Mirror, by Jeannie Baker is very unique, there are two sides to the book that mirror each other.

Motif was used in this book multiple times, the first is with a rug that appears many time on both sides of the story, the other is the moon that appears on both sides of the story, this shows that although these two stories take place in two completely different places, they still share some of the same things. But they still retain many pre-Islamic customs, such as reverence for saints, whose shrines dot the countryside. This innovative picture book comprises two stories designed to be read simultaneously one from the left, the other from the right. An Australian family, whose way of life strikes a familiar chord, and a family from a far away country with a way of life that differs more than one can imagine.I had expected to be working alongside the girls but it was now obvious that was not what they expected at all.