Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 4 Passages (one per week) for copywork/dictation
- Lessons on grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, literary devices & literary analysis
- Boomerang Planner and Skills Tracker
- Weekly Reading Guide
- Beyond the Passage and Inside Scoop boxes
- Discussion Questions
- Family Book Club Party Ideas
- Guidelines explaining copywork & dictation practices
Note
Ultimately, Fountains of Silence affirms family, loyalty, truth, and true love, while also accurately reflecting the kinds of incidents that happened during a troubled time in Spain’s history. Some of the intense events and images of this book may be upsetting. Analyzing the injustices of this time and place opens the door to big juicy conversations about repression, racism, loss, and socioeconomic differences. Parents are encouraged to pre-read Fountains of Silence to be equipped to process reactions and insights together with their teens.
About the Book
Fountains of Silence
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood...
