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Knox is surprised to learn that some children get free lunch at school. Research the National School Lunch Program and share your research in an essay. How many kids in your district receive free lunch? What are the income requirements? How did your school district manage to give free lunch to the kids in the program during COVID-19? Explain through your research why free lunches are vital to communities using passages from the text.
Compare Knox’s experience during COVID-19 with your own. What are some of the concerns that he had? What changed in his life? What were some good things that came from the pandemic? What were the most harmful effects? Compare the same questions in regard to your own COVID-19 experience, using quotations from the novel.
What are some struggles members of the Wei-Evans family experience because of their individual differences? What are some advantages they have? Then consider your own experience. In what way might you be different from other people? In what ways do the family members use these advantages to help others and how could you do the same? Use scenes from the novel to support your answer.
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