You can use these journal topics with your students throughout reading the novel In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. Some are quotes taken from the novel. Topics are divided into two month intervals which span the entire year covered in this novel. This list of journal entries for the novel can be copied and taped into students' journals.
It's a great novel to read at any time of the year. World Series time would be great as well as the Chinese New Year and African American History month.
It's a great novel to read at any time of the year. World Series time would be great as well as the Chinese New Year and African American History month.

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