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.)
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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
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