We need more books this length! Petu Pumpkin: Freedom Fighter is perfect for my book club for so many reasons! For one, it’s a book about agency and creating change, while also being a humorous read featuring familiar characters. For another, since it’s just about a hundred pages long, we have enough time to read as well as do activities based on the book.
Interviews
Petu Pumpkin and his friends gather quite a crowd as they protest outside their school gates. This is a good prompt for us to explore how interviews worked. What questions would we ask an interviewee? Just like when we read Sita’s Chitwan, I look forward to interesting interviews of my book clubbers!
Campaign
What would you campaign for? What makes you angry, and what do you feel is unjust?
With Petu Pumpkin, we’ll look at a few elements of a campaign from discussing what changes we want to make to the world around us to designing a poster.
Writing a Speech
What goes into a speech? How do we structure it so that it is impactful. As we read about speeches, we’ll try to write one of our own about something we believe.
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We’ve read and enjoyed four of Arundhati Venkatesh’s books at my book club! Take a look:
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