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Yes-No
What is interesting in the book School is the opposites. What happens to Jojo on the first day of school is quite different from what she had imagined.
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- She thought her principal would be a man, but it was a woman instead.
- The teacher with the blond bun, that Jojo imagined would be her teacher, is really a man with a black moustache.
- Her little neighbour in class is not white, she is black.
- Even though she said that she knows her phone number by heart, she forgot it.
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There is one thing that is exactly as she imagined it. Her neighbour in class will become her best friend, just like Pichou!
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ACTIVITY-GAME
Think of as many "opposites" as you can and write them in two columns. For example, think of the following opposites: black and white; high and low; hot and cold… Just to make it more fun, you can set a time limit or play in teams. You could also change the game and only find "sames".
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And Jojo is going to play "school" with Pichou just so he can share in the pleasure of this discovery with her. Have you ever pretended to be a pupil when you are playing? Or, better yet, have you ever played school with your toys? If you had to choose between math, geography, writing, reading and French, which would you pick?
To write stories, you must be able to say things correctly, even if you put yourself in the place of a younger person like Jojo. Or like you. You are the one who is reading Jojo's story, even if you are more than five years old and you have already had YOUR FIRST DAY IN SCHOOL.
And you can read it to your little sister so that she can dream too … or even to your little scamp of a brother! When you create a book in which a little girl lives, it's as if you were getting into her head. Anyway, that's how Ginette Anfousse goes about it to get the words and the pictures. Her pictures are not too complicated. They are not filled with millions of little details. They show exactly what's needed.
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