In the Kindergarten Study Guide

This well-known short story is set in a rural school in Communist China, where the children live for the term. Our attention is focused on the class of five and six-year-olds beginning the second week of school. Shaona, the young protagonist of the story, is homesick. Her mother gave birth to a baby boy shortly before Shaona was sent to school and she is confused by the sequence of events. (read more)