LHS Book Club

Code Talker Lunchtime Book Chat

Let’s try to assemble at lunch on the 15th of January and talk about Ned Begay, star and main character of the book Code Talker!  If indeed this date and time work for most, we’ll hold our book club meeting.  If this date and time doesn’t work for the majority, we’ll hold the meeting on the 22nd of January.  Please blog your thoughts on the meeting date!

Here are some questions provided by the Scholastic website to ponder: 

1. Once he arrives at boarding school, how does Ned Begay get his new name?
2. Describe the warfare method the AMericans call “banzai”
3. Throughout his time in training and in service as a code Talker, Ned carries a pouch of corn pollen with him.  What does this pouch mean to Ned, and how does he use it?
4. Ned notices that the Navajos have a much easier time adjusting to life as Marines than the white men.  Why does he fell his life as a Navajo prepared him for being a Marine?

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clubs/lit_circle_pdfs/code_talker_t.pdf