This week, students started reading independent books which have strong connections with our global read-aloud book, Fish. Some students are reading the book A Long Walk to Water, a book based on a true story that narrates the harrowing experience of a boy who has to escape southern Sudan in 1985. Others are reading Inside Out and Back Again, about a girl whose family has to flee their home country of Vietnam in 1975 to escape the violence of the Vietnam War.
In class last week, we discussed the three levels of setting in Fish. This week, students are finding elements of the three levels of setting in their independent books. Students: please reply to this blog post with a comment that compares and contrasts the three levels of setting in Fish with those in your independent book. In your reply, state the name of your book and use text evidence to explain each similarity and difference that you write.
The Meso setting in fish is similar to the setting in a long walk to water because of war and weather. It is also similar because their problems, like surviving and walking all relate into one main problem, leaving. I think the main similarity is leaving because it impacts the characters feelings the most.
I am reading Inside Out & Back Again as my independent book. The micro-settings are pretty different but they both have family close to them. The meso-settings they both have war as a problem. Poverty is a biggie for Ha the main character in my independent book but Tiger in Fish is not poor but he lived where people are very poor. The macro-settings are pretty alike with war also because war effects smaller places and it effects very big places. The war effects both families to leave. The difference is Ha’s family are refugees and Tigers family is going back to their country.
The book a long walk to water is similar to fish because a war has come to Sudan and Salva must travel far to get to safety.In fish a war is coming to the country tiger is in and tiger and his family must flee for there safety.
The book that I am reading is Inside Out And Back Again. A way that Fish is related to Inside Out And Back Again is that Tiger and Ha are both fleeing their homes because of war. A difference is that Tiger is fleeing, but in Tiger’s case, no man is left behind. Unlike in Inside Out And Back Again, the family leaves the dad in Vietnam.
-Deanna
I think that Fish and Inside Out And Back Again by Thanhha Lai have a similar meso setting because in both books, their meso settings include poverty, war, a monsoon, and so on. In both books the main characters must leave their home because of war. But their micro setting seems to be a little different because they have different personal things in their lives. In Fish, the main character has things like family, friends, and the fish. In Inside Out And Back Again the main character has things like family, friends, her father’s disappearance, and also her Papaya Tree. I think that their macro settings are mostly the same as their meso setting, so I think that their meso settings are the same. ~ Charley P.
My name is Amelia P. and I am reading the book ” Inside Out And Back Again” by Thannaha Lai for my small group. I see a similar setting in a way because in Fish is described as a sandy desert and it has a very rainy season and a very dry season. In IOABA It has a monsoon and that is like a very rainy season. My small group book is set in Vietnam on the other hand in the book Fish it is a mystery to where the setting takes place.But I think that maybe the setting in Fish is in Vietnam because in IOABA which is set in Vietnam, the author describes Vietnam as a place where there is two very different seasons ; specifically speaking a very dry season and a monsoon season. In Fish the author describes the setting similar.