This story is set in West Africa, and is about a young girl named Bintou who wants to have her hair braided more than anything in the world. Throughout the story, everyone in her family keeps telling her that she is too young, and that it isn’t time for her to have braids yet, which just makes her even more frustrated. But after Bintou demonstrates an act of heroism, she soon determines that it’s not her hair that makes her wonderful, but who she is on the inside. She ends up getting a special hair-do of her own.
After reading this book, I would have the students brainstorm about something that they once wanted really bad, but never got. The students would then proceed to write about this prompt, expanding further and giving details. Since this story is set in West Africa, I would like the students to think up some similarities between themselves and Bintou, focusing on what things in life are important to them, compared to what’s important to Bintou. To do this, I would have them create some sort of diagram to compare and contrast the two. Then I would have them extend further by looking up some things about African children, and what they value in their cultures.
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