A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village.
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RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone CCSS.
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RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text..
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RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
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RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
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RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story\'s or drama\'s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
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RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
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RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character\'s thoughts, words, or actions).
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.
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RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Burying the Moon shines a light on how a lack of access to sanitation facilities affects girls and women in many parts of the world.
When a government representative visits their village, she sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody in her village.
But Latika has had enough.
No one in the village wants to talk about this shameful problem.
For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty.
There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick.
No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field.
In Latika\'s village in rural India, there are no toilets.
A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village
