Chapter 4 Portal Ave: How to Look Both (Both) Ways (pgs 61-75)

~ Read by 8th Grade Principal Mr. Bryan McCrystal

Discussion Questions

1. Why does Fatima keep a list of the things in her day that stay the same?

2. Can someone always be looking both ways? (both down and up?) Explain.

3. Benni asks Fatima how she will change the world. What does Fatima decide to do? How would you change the world?

Activity:

Stand Up - Sometimes standing up for someone else is hard. It is important, but difficult. it can be heroic. Engage your students in a conversation about how upstander behavior is similar to and/or different from being a real-life hero. Were leaders of the civil rights movement, like martin Luther King, Jr. upstanders? How so? Students can conduct research about important upstanders in history, discussing how they made their decision to move from bystander to upstander.