In the story No Talking an entire fifth grade competes in a contest, boys versus girls, to see if they can go 2 days without talking. The idea came from the story’s main character, Drew, after he read a story about Gandhi and how he spends a couple of days a year not talking just to clear his mind. After hearing the girls being so loud in the cafeteria one day Drew turns his idea into a plan to compete against the girls. The plan goes smoothly until the principal and teachers gets involved and try to get the students to stop the contest, but little did they know that this little competition could change their school forever.
After reading this book, I would challenge my students do the same thing Drew and Lyndsey did because then it would give my students the opportunity to discover alternate forms of communication and also help them discover alternate forms of learning . My favorite part of the book was when they were able to find different ways to learn and communicate with each other.
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