The days that seem totally ordinary when you wake up, but by the time you go to sleep that night, your whole life is divided into before that day and after that day? My mistake. My answer came as soon as I entered the tunnel. It was the color of our buildings, our markets, our streets. If you teach students in this grade range, there are opportunities for discussions about the price of freedom, about how much they would risk to change their life circumstances, and perhaps their own plan for how they would escape, if they were trapped in East Berlin. Explain and illustrate your favorite quote from the book. setDisplayBids: function() {}, I LOVED this book! When I first read that quote it gave me goosebumps. "How many of our investments pay dividends that leave our conscience 'divided in the end.". They do that all the time! It is also my way of showing affection to them for being thankful to be with them. But it's like they never did. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. Next I have students create a list of high order thinking questions using Costa's question cues. Required fields are marked *. "It was Sunday, August 13, 1961, a day I would remember for the rest of my life. //