Dave Packer is a fifth grade boy who believes girls talk more than boys. Dave feels that if girls stopped talking for just five minutes their heads would pop off. Lynsey Burgess, a fifth grade girl will not stand for what Dave is claiming. In order to prove who is right Lynsey and Dave decided to hold a two day “no talking’ contest that involves all the fifth grade students at Laketon Elementary School. At school they are only allowed to talk to a teacher, administrator, custodian, or any other big name person but they can not speak unless spoken to first and only answer in three words; any words over that will count against their team. To make it harder when they go home they are still not allowed to talk but if they do they must be honest and tell the team caption Dave (for the boys) and Lynsey (for the girls). With only forty-eight hours of no talking, who will win the contest; the girls or the boys?
After reading this book to the class, I would have them imagine that they were a group of students that are in the middle of a no talking contest. I would each put them in small groups and give them a topic they will have to teach to the class that day. I will give them fifteen minutes to research and then they have 3-5 minutes to present (still no talking). After everybody has had a chance to present we would come together as a class and reflect on the activity. We would discuss if the students felt like the got more or less work done and if their findings were the same as Dave and Lynsey’s.
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