Journey to Jo’Burg (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics) (Journey to Jo'Burg Series Book 1)

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When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know, deep down, that only one person can save her. All those lesson on writing letters…for jobs as servants…always writing how good they were at cooking, cleaning, washing, gardening…always ending with “Yours obediently.

They realized that there is a lot about South Africa that they don't know, which their schools are not teaching them. It might be hard, at first, for them to keep the characters straight, since I even struggled with that as an adult. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Their mother is able to get time off, beginning the next day, to take her children home and help Dineo. In a social studies or history class, Journey to Jo’Burg could be used to compare and contrast the history of South Africa with that of the U.The gripping and empathetic story will draw pupils into engaging imaginatively with what life would have been like for families living during this time of racial segregation. Naledi and Tiro are exposed to the fear of violence for “non whites” underlying the discrimination when they unknowingly attempt to board a bus for white people and witness a pass raid at a train station where they see the cruel treatment of black people at the hands of the police.

Certain that their sister needs a doctor, they decide to disobey their grandmother’s wishes and leave their small town to journey to Johannesburg where their mother works as a servant to get her help. It is a really simple and heartfelt story that contains powerful subject matter for children to explore and discuss in the classroom.When I saw my husband watching a video with Trevor Noah, I casually dropped a ”he grew up in Soweto”, but this was too much of an insider knowledge (? The physical journey is symbolic of their awakening to the wider realities of apartheid; they face danger and experience prejudice, but also meet kind strangers who help to keep them safe and tell them stories about the uprising of students in Soweto. It is a simple story line that has potential to open many discussions and topics for children to further explore in the classroom. This resource book brings you a wealth of inspiring activities, discussion ideas and guided reading notes based on Journey to Jo’burg by Beverly Naidoo. It isn't until they reach the city that they come to understand the dangers of their country, and the painful struggle for freedom and dignity that is taking place all around them.