Everything you need to understand or teach The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong.
The chief goal of The Wheel on the School is to illustrate how members of a community can work together and grow closer in the process of achieving a common goal. DeJong develops this theme in his tightly structured dramatic novel set in the Dutch village of Shora during the early twentieth century.
The routine business of Shora is interrupted after Una, the only girl in the village school, asks why there are...