A very clever story told through pictures and limited words – Don’t Cross the line by Isabel Minhos Martins and Bernardo P. Carvalho is an excellent addition to any classroom studying government and society.
There is a guard who follows the rules – the rules that does not allow anyone to go on the right hand side of the page.
All the characters that he meets want to go to the other side of the page but meet with his strict orders not to go against him….until a ball gets kicked over the line and the crowd no longer want to be told what to do.
Will people power overcome fear and dictatorship or will they continue to live in fear?
Can we see the different sides to the story to really understand where the different characters are coming from and how they feel about the other side of the page?
You will enjoy reading this book again and again, looking at the different characters that live on the pages and seeing how they react to the different situations presented to them as the story progresses.
It is a great book to accompanying any unit of work about government and society and will really help you to reflect on how you see the rules you live under.
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So what else can you do with this book?
Read through story
- What is power?
- How is power shared in a democracy? How is power shared in other forms of government? Explore different types of government that exist or have existed.
- How does power change?
- What is a dictatorship?
- Can people power overthrow a dictator?
Literacy
- Rewrite this story using either first or third person – explore the difference between telling this story from two different perspectives
- Could you add more speech bubbles to this story?
- Could you take away the speech bubbles and write a story instead? How does this change the idea and tone of the story?
Follow on with books that link in with government – we are going to look at Once by Morris Gleitzman so watch this space!
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