Message from droston

[Anonymous]

One of the novels we have used at Nightingale for 8th grade students is "Ties that Bind, Ties that Break." It is a story about a young girl who refused to have her feet bound. It is set a few years before this custom was no longer practiced and deals with a number of issues including women's rights and the political changes in China. It sparks a lot of discussion and students seem to become very engaged in the novel. We have taught it along with "The Diary of Anne Frank" as a thematic unit, but I'm considering possibly ending the year with this as part of a unit on solely Asian literature and topics.