Hi I’m Madie Schlossberg and welcome back to my blog! The novel my partner, Sydney, and I chose is the famous American author, Judy Blume’s, “Blubber.” This novel is important to elementary grades, specifically 4^thand 5^thgrade. “Blubber” touches upon a main problem in schools today, bullying. I think that this book is showing a lesson that all students should learn early in life, standing up for what is right. The book conducts two of Gardner’s Intelligences, interpersonal and intrapersonal. The interpersonal aspect comes in when the main character, Jill, has to deal with being apart of something she does not want to. She had to go along with the joke against the girl getting bullied because she felt that it was the only way to still be apart of fitting in with the others. Students at young ages often go along with other students even when they are wrong, to avoid being an outcast.  She faked a smile when she saw the note making fun of the girl, not because she thought it was funny, but because the bully was watching her read it. The intrapersonal aspect plays in when the readers see how Jill struggles within herself and her conscience knowing that making fun of the student is wrong and feeling complacent in the bullying of the student. She knew it was wrong and struggled to do what was right in that situation. For my teaching tool, my goal would be to engage the students in a way where the message of the book would get across to them. I would ask them to respond to questions that would make them deeper in the book, such as “Why would Jill feel bad?” Normally, the first thing that comes to mind is because she would feel bad for the girl getting bullied, but that is not what the answer to me. I would explain to the students that it is because she did not speak up or stand up for the girl when she saw she was hurt by the words. That is a life lesson that children will carry with them. A PowerPoint with videos about the book would also go along with the lesson plan. The questions the students would answer is creative and effective. The main point of the book is to not bully, but I would want the students to find something deeper, such as to stand up for one another and speak up when something is wrong. I think that giving the students questions about the book gives them a chance to understand it themselves much better and to find the real reason the book is so important. Thus far, a main challenge I ran into would be finding a text that really touched upon something important and something that I feel students would enjoy reading, but also giving off a valuable lesson. I have to say I was surprised when I found that this 4^thgrade book has a deeper, psychological meaning to it. Yes, it is about bullying, but when you truly understand it, you are able to see that it is about saying something when you see something wrong. In the world we live in today, I think this fits in appropriately and is a lesson every person should take with them in their lifetime.