Tuesday in Arizona
Since I talked to the students before I read the book about what pack rats do, they paid a great deal of attention to the pack rat in the story. They got the humor of the story right away whenever they saw what the pack rat was doing. A few students continued to call it a mouse even after the story had been read. A few understood that it was a rat. They all understood the concept of collecting things, through the examples provided in the book's illustrations. The following images were made by two of the students in response to the book. They drew their favorite scene: the prospector lying under a sombrero, which the rat has eaten part of so sun leaks through.
