Summary
This is a book about a pen pal friendship from a little girl in the states named Abby and a little boy in Afghanistan named Sadeed. Abby is given this extra credit assignment so that she will not be held back in her current grade. Sadeed is chosen to correspond with Abby because he is the best student in his class. Things go smoothly until the community that Sadeed comes from finds out that he is corresponding with someone from the United States. Can they continue to write to each other? Can two people so different really learn anything from each other?
Follow-Up Questions:
1. If you were given the assignment to write another student from a foreign country, what would be your top 5 topics to write about in your first letter? What would be your top 5 questions that you would want to know from the person you were corresponding with?
2. If you were in Sadeed’s position, would you have done what he did or would you have kept the secret going?
Extension Activities:
1. As a class you could each bring in an item that you think is important to where you live. For example: Abby sent Sadeed a rock and he sent her sand. What would you chose? Bring your items to class and discuss them.
2. Continue to write the rest of the book. What happens next with Abby and Sadeed?
You can check out the study guide by Andrew Clements here:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Extra-Credit/Andrew-Clements/9781416949312/reading_group_guide
The majority of the people in our class would just keep the secret going! We feel this way because we would have to stop writing back and forth if we told the truth.
ReplyDeleteI love this book. i want to get a pen pal too.
ReplyDeleteI did not like when souede got caught.
ReplyDeleteif i were them i would keep it going it would be cool to write to someone in a diffrent country.
ReplyDeleteMy five topics are school,where you live, state, country, and is the war over.Are you hurt, can you stand the war, Do you like it there.
ReplyDeletewhi did thy stop sending leter to each?
ReplyDeletesomeone found out
Deletesomone in afganastand found out
Deleteif i where able to write 5 letters my topics are;1. i would talk about my family, 2. what i like to do, 3. of i had a wish, 4. my favirote foods, 5. what i'll do in after years.
ReplyDeleteI love extra credit cuz he help his little sister write her letter
ReplyDeletei love this book. because it tells that you can keep a secret for a while
ReplyDeleteIt was sad that Sadeed and Abby could not write any more.
ReplyDeletethat was weard that she got extra credit that she didn't got heald back in what grade.
ReplyDeleteI think this book was kind of wierd because why would a boy not be able to write to a girl and rock climbing is way better than looking plain grass.
ReplyDeleteit great but the to be spice up a little beside afhanistan is my third favorite places
ReplyDelete1.I would ask what kind of food that he would eat. 2.what place were born. 3.Are you the oldest one in your family.4.what language do you speak. 5.Is your family kind to you
ReplyDeleteExtra Credit was a very good book. I like the part when Sadeed sent a very tiny stone to Abby.
ReplyDelete1.I would want to know what kind of food they have. 2.I would want to know how they traval. 3.what kind of books they like. 4. how many languges they know. 5.If they would want to swich contries with me
ReplyDeletethis book was very sad because of what was going on in afhanistan.at thew end it was the one of the best sunshinestate books i read.
ReplyDeleteit to me was the best
Deletewhat did u think of the book Anonymous was it :] or:{
Deletewhen i read this book i was transported to a diffrent world like mars or something like that but it was so good or i mean asome like most of my day was taken out of my day i was blon away when i was in the middle of the book if i could write to a diffrent student with out any one kowing that would be asome but it would be hard to try to get naway from people but what if some one say it like in the book what should i do should i run or should i tell them that i did not right or tell them the truht? that would be odd would in it and that would be kind of scary because u wolud just have someone and just take a paper and read it would in't be i think i would have run and run and run but he was strong he proble had some one come up to him befor
ReplyDeletethe book is amazing i mean who came up with the idea of making letters go back and forth its amazing and i picked the book to read out of seven for choices to be in a group
ReplyDeleteI know it was awesome,I am in your class, I did the same thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI wish they had another one, don't you?!
DeleteThis book was perfection,i wish it had a second one soooooooooooooooooooo bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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