The One Thing You'd Save

My first experience reading Sijo. It's a slow realization as we read through this poetry, which is a profound conversation between a teacher and her students about the importance we associate with material things in life.

I like the idea of this book as a jump start to an actual classroom discussion. However, for the age range this seems to be targeted at, the narrator transitions are confusing. It took me a while to glom on to the fact that some of the objects worth saving tied into other student's narrations. I liked it for what it was, but I struggle to identify who I'd recommend it to. It was very brief.

Lovely. Authentic characters. Good mixture of attitudes