Michael’s life is complicated. His father is from Sāmoa, his mother is not. He was born in Christchurch and when people ask if he has ever gone back to Sāmoa, he finds it hard to explain that actually, he’d just be going.

This pack contains a range of response activities complete with activity explainer videos for exploring thinking skills and developing emotional understandings and compassionate inquiry including:

• Blooms Higher Order Thinking activities
• Book Club guide for deepening text discussion
• A range of activities to explore emotional understanding, compassionate inquiry, empathy development, vocabulary and developing skills for self and co-regulation.

Themes explored include: belonging, change, culture, family, grandparents, home, identity, Lalomanu, Pacific, responsibility, Sāmoa, separation, single-parent families, island life, divorce, role models.