Tried It Tuesday

Let's link up with Fourth Grade Flipper for Tried It Tuesday!

My read aloud time is my FAVORITE time in my fourth grade classroom. We read Wonder by RJ Palacio this year and the class obviously enjoyed it! Which is why we were ECSTATIC to download the continuation of Wonder...the Julian Chapter!

The Julian Chapter is an e-book that we are reading on our class Kindle, currently. We started today and we are LOVING it!

For those of you who don't know, Wonder is the story of August Pullman, a boy born with severe facial disfigurement. In the book, he begins going to school with other kids for the first time in fifth grade. Julian is the bully in the text. In Wonder, many main characters have the opportunity to tell the story from their perspective, but Julian does not. Many fans of the text questioned the author about this, and she responded that Julian's perspective would be too negative and overpower Auggie's story. Welp, she has released his perspective...and here are my thoughts.

When I first started reading, it scared me. Because it WAS really negative. And I didn't want my boys to think that bullying is funny. But then we got to know Julian on a deeper level. And I really enjoyed his version of the story. I even cried. Okay, I cry at everything, so that's NBD.