• If every creature sees the cat differently, is there anything that is objectively true of the cat?
• What is a cat?
• Is the way the cat sees themself more authoritative than how they are perceived by others?
• Is it possible to see the world as others do?
• Can we really know how others perceive us?
• Does how we feel about someone influence how we see them?
• Is there one right way to perceive someone or something?

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Warm-up questions (optional):

• Do you like to cook? Does anyone in your family like to cook? Do you cook together?
• Is there a special food that is important to your family? Is there a special food that you only eat for celebrations?
• What is a “tradition”? What traditions do you have in your family?

Questions for after reading the story:

• How is food a part of someone’s community?
• Can food be a part of someone’s identity? How so?
• Why do some families have different traditions?
• Are traditions good or bad? Does it depend on the tradition?
• Why do you think Ti Gran wants to continue the tradition of making Freedom Soup and retelling the story of Haiti’s history, even though it has been so long since the events in the story happened, and even though Ti Gran and her family do not live in Haiti anymore?
• Is it important to remember history? Why or why not?
• What is the difference between “remembering” and “commemorating”?
• What does it mean to be “free”?
• Why do you think Ti Gran says to Belle, “Nothing in this world is free, not event freedom?”
• What does it mean when someone says we must “fight for what is right?”
• Is it ever okay to use violence? What about in self-defense? What about in a fight for freedom?

Before discussions that might touch on social justice issues, read “Things to Think About.”

Contributed by Sam Sandoval, University of Washington

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Why is it important to understand the ways in which people are different from each other?

Why is it important to understand the ways in which people are the same?

Does having more things make people happier? Why?

Why do people help other people?

Read Aloud by Mark de la Peña: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4irkUDbaIA

Before having discussions that might touch on social justice issues, read “Things to Think About.”

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