One other thing I noticed throughout these Chapters was that Ellis seemed to be dropping hints specifically for teachers. Maybe I just noticed them more because I am a pre-service teacher, but at times it felt like Ellis might have been writing this book with little hints for educators to take notice of. Some examples were:
- When Parvana is lecturing to the younger kids from her notes about first aide, she notices that the kids are falling asleep from boredom so she decided to take a more practical approach. The lesson for teachers in this scenario is to do whatever it takes to engage your students in what you want them to learn and make real-life connections between the lives of your students and what they are meant to learn.
- On page 108-109 Ellis describes a scene where the Major and Corporal are eating donuts and reading their books in front of Parvana. Parvana makes fraction questions about the donuts in her head and comments that there is not picture on the front of the Jane Eyer book to use a clue to what the book might be about. The lesson for teachers in this scenario is to show students how to transfer strategies they learn in the classroom to solve problems outside of the classroom.