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//Among the Hidden// by Margaret Peterson Haddix

We will use the **Discussion Tab** to have a discussion about this book.

This is our first online book discussion, so leave some feedback here. Feedback should be things you really like and it should be things you think would make the Book Club better. I really like that teachers and students can all discuss the same book. -Mrs. H.


 * Inquiry Activities and Research - I will post any projects you make to this wiki and the school webpage.**
 * What would happen to your family if third children and beyond were outlawed? Would you have been born? Would your parents or your grandparents? Make a family tree. How many relatives would have to be taken off if there were no third children?
 * Among the Hidden is fiction. But the most populous country in the world, China, actually does have laws that strictly limit family size. Find out more about China's effort to reduce its population. How are the laws enforced? How sucessful have they been? Are these laws popular or unpopular among the people?
 * The government in Among the Hidden is totalitarian. The government of the United States is democratic. How do these forms of goverment differ from one another? If possible, invite an elected official to come speak. What are a citizen's rights and freedoms in a democracy? How are they preserved and protected? How are they threatened? Could what happened in Among the Hidden happen in our society?
 * You are the chief propaganda officer of the Population Police. Create a bumper sticker or billboard reminding ordinary citizens that third children are against the law.
 * Imagine that fifteen years have passed since Luke left home. Where is he now? What is he doing? Is it still illegal to be a third child? Compose a letter he writes home to his parents. Are they still on the farm?