The English Roses- Theme

The children have been working hard on their reading strategies skills. Last week I read aloud "The English Roses" by Madonna. They predicted what the book would be about based on the cover and pictures, and found you can't judge a book by its cover. They discovered that the theme of this book is bullying by exclusion, which is a passive form of bullying but still none-the-less bullying. We talked as a class how this can be prevented and just because someone looks ok on the outside doesn't mean they have a perfect life you should be jealous of. Before reading the book we worked with our interactive notebooks and came up as a class with other themes that are found in literature. Take a look below at the great job they did.