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I have found a book that I am going to use as a 9/11 activity. It is a = picture book called "The Three Questions" by Jon J. Muth based on a story = by Leo Tolstoy. The three questions are: 1) When is the best time to do = things? 2) Who is the most important one? 3) What is the right thing to do?= In the story the boy asks these three questions. No one can answer = them so he talks to an old turtle (a sage) to see if he can help him find = the answers. While helping Leo the turtle the boy hears a cry for help = and rushes to help a mother panda who has been hurt and her baby. By = helping the pandas the boy learns the answer to his questions. I'm going = to turn this story into a creative writing assignment for fifth, sixth, = and seventh graders. Many different stories can be written to answer the = three questions. I think it ties in nicely to 9/11 because stories of = firemen or policemen responding to emergency calls parallel the story, but = there also can be many other stories generated from the three questions. = The story I'm going to use as an example is one of my own. Here is the = example, I was taking my sons and some of their friends to a baseball = game in the car one day. As we came down a city street there was a one = year old baby standing in the lane of traffic. I stopped my car, turned = on the emergency lights, got out of the car, picked up the baby and = carried him up the steps to his home. I knocked on the door and returned = the diaper clad infant to his mother saying that I had found him standing = in the street. Then I returned to my car and continued the trip to the = baseball game. (This example is a true story.) --=20 Kathy Geronzin District Librarian=20 Northeast Community Schools 369 Hwy #136 Goose Lake, IA 52750 319-577-2249 FAX 319-577-2248 FAX 319-577-2248 kathy_geronzin@po-1.northeast.k12.ia.us =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=