On January 29, 2009, Rahkia read a fiction book aloud to the class. The book, Telephone was written by Jamey Gambrell and illustrated byVladimir Radunsky. This "classic Russian nonsense poem" was based on the work of Kornei Chudovsky. Telephone is good to use in the classroom because it is colorful, has fun words, and repetition. For an example, there is a picture of an elephant wearing sunglasses with leopard frames. In addition to the creative pictures, this book talks about problem-solving problems. The different animals are calling the man for solutions to their problems. If you read this book in your classroom, you could ask students to think of different ways that they can solve problems and encourage students to solve their problems on their own. You could ask the students to think of a different ending to the book, because it ended so abruptly. This book has a lot of teaching points.

After Rahkia read the book, the other three groups presented their ideas to the class. After that, we did a writing assignment with partners. We talked about the pros and cons of writing to one another. The homework was to do a rough draft of the personal autobiographies.