Discussion+Questions

1. Have you experienced similar set backs or accomplishments that the characters in the book experienced? If so how?

2. How would you feel coming into a school that already labeled the students unteachable and trying to transform the students lives?

3. Have you ever been inspired by a book like Erin and her students were inspired by the Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic? If so who has inspired you and how.

4. Discuss tolerance.

5. In what ways does discrimination occur in everyday life?