Story #1

1. Story #1

2. 1. Thief 2. Wonder 3. Hallway 4. Confused 5. Suddenly 6. Make a fuss 7. Offer 8. Package 9. Realize 10. Stealing 11. Disgrace 12. Rude 13. Uneducated 14. Unopened 15. Belong 16. Embarrassed Quick Vocabulary Check!!

3. Thief B. Wonder C. Hallway D. Confused • E. Suddenly F. Make a fuss G. Offer H. Package • I ___________ what my mom will cook for dinner tonight. • I am very shy and do no like to ___________ when things bother me. • My brother bought a ___________ of crackers from the store. • ___________ everything changed. Nobody knew that it would happen.

4. Thief B. Wonder C. Hallway D. Confused • E. Suddenly F. Make a fuss G. Offer H. Package • The _________ took the money from the shop owner and ran away! • There are many people in the ___________ between the rooms. • The book is very long and difficult. I am ___________. • If she does needs more help, I will ____________ to go.

5. Realize B. Stealing C. Disgrace D. Rude • E. Uneducated F. Unopened G. Belong H. Embarrassed • He was ____________ because he tripped and fell in front of the whole class! • I did not ____________ how far away your home was! • She knew the food was fresh because the bag was ___________. • The boy knew that ____________ was wrong, but he took the candy without asking anyway.

6. Realize B. Stealing C. Disgrace D. Rude • E. Uneducated F. Unopened G. Belong H. Embarrassed • She did not take the purse because it did not _________ to her. • Everyone thought it was very ___________ that the man did not say “thank you”. • Her actions brought her family shame and ____________. • He had never went to school or read a book, and he did not care to learn anything new. He was _____________.

7. One day a young girl was waiting for her mother to take her home from school. She sat in the hallway to wait. While she waited she read a book and ate a package of cookies.

8. She was reading her book, when suddenly she realized that there was a young man sitting in the floor next to her. He was eating out of the pack of cookies lying between them. He started to eat them one by one.

9. Not wanting to make a fuss about it she decided to ignore him. The girl, still mad, ate the cookies and watched the clock, while the young thief continued to eat from the bag of cookies.

10. The woman started to get very angry and she thought ‘If I was not such a good, nice, and educated person, I would hit this man and tell him how disgraceful he was for taking my cookies!’

11. Every time she ate a cookie, he ate one too. When only one cookie was left, she wondered what was he going to do. Then he took the last cookie and broke it in two. He offered one half of the cookie to the girl while he ate the other half.

12. She took the half of her own cookie and thought, ‘What a rude boy! How uneducated! He never even said thank you!’ She had never met anybody so rude and left very angrily.

13. When she got home she opened her school bag and a full bag of unopened cookies. She was very confused.

14. Then the girl realized that the cookies had belonged to the boy. He was not stealing from her. SHE was stealing from HIM. Suddenly the girl felt embarrassed and very sorry for all of the mean things she had thought about the boy.

15. Story #2

16. QUICK VOCABULARY CHECK!!! A. BlindB. DiscussingC. FirmD. SmoothE. SharpF. SquirmingG. ReachedH. Grabbed 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

17. Six blind men were discussing what they believed an elephant to be, since none had ever seen one before. The blind men decided to find an elephant and discover what the animal was really like.

18. The blind men found an elephant at a nearby market. The first blind man felt the animal's firm flat side. "It seems to me that the elephant is just like a wall," he said to his friends.

19. The second blind man touched one of the elephant's tusks. "No, this is round and smooth and sharp - the elephant is like a spear."

20. The third blind man stepped up to the elephant and touched its trunk. "Well, I can't agree with either of you; I feel a squirming thing - the elephant is just like a snake."

21. The fourth blind man reached out, and felt the elephant's leg. "You are all crazy," he said, "because clearly the elephant is just like a tree."

22. Very confused, the fifth blind man grabbed one of the elephant's ears. "You must all be mad - an elephant is exactly like a fan."

23. The sixth man, holding the elephant's tail, disagreed again. "It's nothing like any of your descriptions - the elephant is just like a rope."

24. All six blind men continued to argue, based on their own experiences, as to what they thought an elephant was like. It was an argument that would continue forever. Each of them thought only about their own idea. None of them listened to one another. Each man saw the elephant as something different. So, even though every blind man was correct about what he felt, none of them were correct about the elephant.

25. Homework

26. Homework: Please write one page responding to as many of these questions as you can. *Did you like this story?*What lessons can we learn from this story? (Examples: Do not judge others, there is never just one way to look at something, can you think of others??)*Does the story or lessons make you think of anything in your own life or in the world?