1. Draw a map of Italy and Switzerland and include the different language regions. Include the places Dinnie and her friends visited in Bloomability, and map their path.

2. Research the service organizations in your town. Find out what volunteer opportunities are available. Create a notebook with pages on each organization for your classroom library.

3. Find the nearest boarding school to your town and send away for information. Compare that school with Dinnie's school. See if you can correspond with someone your age from that school.

4. Read Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson, specifically the "I have become a transparent eyeball" passage. Analyze the full passage with reference to the novel you just read.

5. Choose a current event and write both sides of the story. Present this to your classmates and discuss.

6. Choose a culture and write a paper on that culture's customs...