Thank you, PTA for the lovely Advent Calendar!
Hello everyone!
In Grades 5 and 6, we are several weeks into our unit on Who We Are with the following Central Idea:
Our sexuality and experiences during puberty help us understand ourselves and others.
We started to explore the idea of gender identity and have been reading a book called George written by Alex Gino - a story about a girl who was born in a boy's body. In other words, the protagonist is transgender as her gender identity does not match her biological sex.
To prepare for this book club meeting, we each came up with open-ended questions which we then narrowed down by voting on which questions would lead to deeper learning.
Here are the questions we chose: