The Day You Begin

Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about being different and hence, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence. 

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Author and publisher: Jacqueline Woodson, Nancy Paulsen books 

Summary: This book presents the readers to different situations when people will experience that no one is quite like them. This may have to do with dressing differently, speaking a different language, bringing unfamiliar food for lunch….. Everybody feels like outsiders sometimes. But, when people start sharing their stories, they may experience that they are not that different after all.  

Suitable for students in years: 7-10 

Tags: Acceptance, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship
Published May 23, 2022 9:28 AM - Last modified Sep. 21, 2022 2:38 PM