After you have read Smile by Raina Telgemeier, answer the following discussion questions:
1. Smile is shelved in our junior graphic novel area, which means that it uses pictures to help tell the story. Would this book have been better or worse without the pictures?
2. Do you think that this story takes place in 2013? What are some clues that tells you when Smile takes place? (For example, no cell phones.)
3. How do you feel about Raina's friends? What would you do if your friends treated you this way?
4. Raina is disappointed with how her teeth look when her braces are removed. Why does she think she looks weird? How do her new friends react? What would her old friends have said?
5. Why do you think that Raina Telgemeier called this book Smile?
If you liked Smile, check out Drama, also by Raina Telgemeier.
3 comments:
I really liked the book because the main character had to go through a lot of stuff to discover who her real friends were.
-OMG.
I love this book. I love it because it is about teeth and braces. I do not where braces because I am only in 2nd grade.
I love smile!
Avery age 7
1. Smile is shelved in our junior graphic novel area, which means that it uses pictures to help tell the story. Would this book have been better or worse without the pictures?
This would have been worse without the pictures.
2. Do you think that this story takes place in 2013? What are some clues that tells you when Smile takes place? (For example, no cell phones.)
I would guess the late 1990s but I do not know.
3. How do you feel about Raina's friends? What would you do if your friends treated you this way?
I think Raina's friends are not nice. I would tell a teacher or an adult if this happened to me.
4. Raina is disappointed with how her teeth look when her braces are removed. Why does she think she looks weird? How do her new friends react? What would her old friends have said?
She looks weird because her two front teeth are pushed up. Her new friends react meanly. Her old friends would have said, you look fine, everyone has something different, looks unique.
5. Why do you think that Raina Telgemeier called this book Smile? Because at the very end of the book she smiled!
I liked the book a lot!!!!!
Mitchell age 10
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