PLN #1

A Smile as Big as the Moon by Mike Kersjes is about a special education teacher taking a group of 20 special education students to a space camp intended for manly "gifted and talented" students. The first and second chapter of the book is about this teacher trying to make a deal to make this dream come true. All the people that he has communicated with think that this field trip is a bad idea. All of his co-workers think that all the kids would get embarrassed if they went because they wouldn't have the ability to do anything at the camp. The people that work at the space facility don't think any special education kids could make it in their camp either. The last part of the book that i read was a scene where the teacher had a breakthrough of how he could get all the opposer's to agree that the special education kids could go to the space camp. He noticed his very young children playing with space toys and thought to himself, "if they can do it, so can my students."