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\nOn June 12, 2008, the last read\u00ading class of the semes\u00adter was held at Chaoyang Dis\u00adtrict No. 1 New Cit\u00adi\u00adzen School, mark\u00ading the com\u00adple\u00adtion of the first semes\u00adter of the \u201cSeeds of Hap\u00adpi\u00adness\u201d read\u00ading pilot pro\u00adgram.
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\nThis last time, we were seri\u00adous\u00adly short of vol\u00adun\u00adteers. Car\u00adrot Inspec\u00adtor led a team to teach at Renai School in Han\u00adwang, Mianzhu, Sichuan (see link:Chron\u00adi\u00adcles of the Ren\u2019ai School in Qunx\u00adin Vil\u00adlage<\/a>Ding Ding was ill, and Xiao Ai, Dou Dou, and Hip\u00adpo could\u00adn\u2019t come for some rea\u00adson. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, we still had Ma Shuoya and the pop\u00adu\u00adlar painter-lawyer duo Xu Cui and Li Ke. Lat\u00ader, I learned that sev\u00ader\u00adal vol\u00adun\u00adteers had strug\u00adgled with their own work dur\u00ading that time, but they per\u00adsist\u00aded in com\u00ading to the New Cit\u00adi\u00adzen School to help. No one knew about it, no one applaud\u00aded them, only the chil\u00addren\u2019s enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm and eager\u00adness spurred them on. It was only a week\u00adly Thurs\u00adday after\u00adnoon, but the chal\u00adlenge was per\u00adsis\u00adtence.
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\nThe four of us can just teach one class in each class: Ma Shuoya is respon\u00adsi\u00adble for Grade 1 (1) and Grade 3; Xu Cui-Li Ke is respon\u00adsi\u00adble for Grade 4 and Grade 2; A Jia is respon\u00adsi\u00adble for Grade 1 (2), Grade 6, and Grade 5.
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\nBecause those days were very busy, and I had to leave for Sichuan Han\u00adwang to teach ear\u00adly the next morn\u00ading (June 13th), I could\u00adn\u2019t pre\u00adpare the con\u00adtent for the three class\u00ades sep\u00ada\u00adrate\u00adly. I decid\u00aded to use the same book for all three class\u00ades: Miyan\u00adishi Tat\u00adsuya\u2019s new book \u201cLove You For\u00adev\u00ader\u201d and \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d (see link:Chat\u00adting about \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d<\/a>).
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\nEvery time I stepped into the Grade 1 (2) class, I was treat\u00aded like an idol. As usu\u00adal, the chil\u00addren cheered, and a few rushed over, not to give me flow\u00aders, but main\u00adly to see what books I had brought. I raised the book and slammed it hard on the table, and the chil\u00addren start\u00aded slam\u00adming it too. The few who had rushed over retreat\u00aded to their seats and start\u00aded slam\u00adming again. They shout\u00aded at the top of their lungs, \u201cThe sky is vast, the wilder\u00adness is bound\u00adless, the wind blows the grass low, and we see cat\u00adtle and sheep!\u201d \u2014 this was the code we agreed on. After this rit\u00adu\u00adal, sto\u00adry time began. When I raised the book \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d and showed them the famil\u00adiar-look\u00ading Tyran\u00adnosaurus Rex on the cov\u00ader, they almost all qui\u00adet\u00aded down and looked at me long\u00ading\u00adly.
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\nI\u2019m 100% sure these kids are going to love this book.
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\nI remem\u00adber my first sto\u00adry\u00adtime with this class on March 13th. It was also the first time all the vol\u00adun\u00adteers gath\u00adered at the New Cit\u00adi\u00adzen School for an activ\u00adi\u00adty. I chose Tat\u00adsuya Miyan\u00adishi\u2019s \u201cYou Look Deli\u00adcious.\u201d I usu\u00adal\u00adly turn to this book when I\u2019m feel\u00ading over\u00adwhelmed because it\u2019s per\u00adfect for sto\u00adry\u00adtelling, and every\u00adone from three- and four-year-olds to fifth- and sixth-graders will be cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded and moved by it. And, boy and girl, that\u2019s fine. But that time, despite my best efforts, the chil\u00addren\u2019s response was quite apa\u00adthet\u00adic. There were moments when every\u00adone qui\u00adet\u00aded down and their eyes focused, but over\u00adall, they were still quite dis\u00adtract\u00aded. Hon\u00adest\u00adly, it was a bit of a blow to my con\u00adfi\u00addence, haha. But lat\u00ader I real\u00adized that was actu\u00adal\u00adly the best per\u00adfor\u00admance these lit\u00adtle ones had ever had. They real\u00adly loved the sto\u00adry, and because of it, they also liked me.
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\nThis class was a rather unusu\u00adal sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion. It was new\u00adly opened dur\u00ading the school\u2019s expan\u00adsion of enroll\u00adment for the new semes\u00adter. Some of the stu\u00addents were first graders from the pre\u00advi\u00adous semes\u00adter, while oth\u00aders had just enrolled this semes\u00adter. Over\u00adall, dis\u00adci\u00adpline was almost nonex\u00adis\u00adtent. Some chil\u00addren had bare\u00adly touched a book before, and upon receiv\u00ading a new book, they would instant\u00adly crum\u00adple the cov\u00ader until it was as black as pick\u00adles. Per\u00adhaps the school was\u00adn\u2019t ful\u00adly pre\u00adpared for the teach\u00ading staff, as the class went through three home\u00adroom teach\u00aders over the next three months, and there was no per\u00adma\u00adnent teacher for the read\u00ading course. One can only imag\u00adine the dis\u00adci\u00adpli\u00adnary sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion in this class.
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\nHow\u00adev\u00ader, after three months of read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties, pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly through two read\u00ading class\u00ades every Thurs\u00adday after\u00adnoon and the ini\u00adtial estab\u00adlish\u00adment of a class\u00adroom book\u00adshelf, the chil\u00addren in this class have at best devel\u00adoped a basic read\u00ading habit. Their enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm for sto\u00adry\u00adtelling is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly high, allow\u00ading them to lis\u00adten atten\u00adtive\u00adly through\u00adout a class. They also active\u00adly par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate in inter\u00adac\u00adtive activ\u00adi\u00adties. How\u00adev\u00ader, to be hon\u00adest, get\u00adting them to set\u00adtle down and engage in inde\u00adpen\u00addent group read\u00ading for even five min\u00adutes is still very dif\u00adfi\u00adcult.
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\nFrom the read\u00ading exper\u00adi\u00adment of Class 1 (2), I think I have learned at least two lessons: First, as a read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adty for the whole class, rules and dis\u00adci\u00adpline are very impor\u00adtant, and can even be said to be pre\u00adreq\u00adui\u00adsites, because this is pos\u00adsi\u00adble to cre\u00adate an envi\u00adron\u00adment and gen\u00ader\u00adate a \u201csense of rit\u00adu\u00adal\u201d on the whole; sec\u00adond, for low\u00ader grades, espe\u00adcial\u00adly chil\u00addren with weak read\u00ading habits, it is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to rely sole\u00adly on week\u00adly activ\u00adi\u00adties. Dai\u00adly activ\u00adi\u00adties are more impor\u00adtant. Of course, both of these are very depen\u00addent on the long-term and effec\u00adtive cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion of the class teacher and the sub\u00adject teach\u00aders.
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\nBased on these lessons, when I arrived at Ren\u2019ai School in the Han\u00adwang bam\u00adboo for\u00adest of Mianzhu, an earth\u00adquake-strick\u00aden area, the first thing I felt was to estab\u00adlish rules and enforce dis\u00adci\u00adpline. Although the envi\u00adron\u00adment there was harsh, and the liv\u00ading and teach\u00ading con\u00addi\u00adtions were extreme\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, all the vol\u00adun\u00adteer teach\u00aders worked togeth\u00ader to restore order to this small bam\u00adboo for\u00adest school.
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\nNine Arti\u00adcles of Agree\u00adment
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\nIn less than a month, chil\u00addren in remote moun\u00adtain vil\u00adlages far from the dis\u00adas\u00adter area have trans\u00adformed from com\u00adplete\u00adly undis\u00adci\u00adplined activ\u00adi\u00adties to a rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly order\u00adly and col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive approach to learn\u00ading, labor, and exer\u00adcise, and have begun to enjoy the beau\u00adty and sense of accom\u00adplish\u00adment that this order\u00adli\u00adness brings. There, through dai\u00adly, free, and relaxed read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adties, a group of rur\u00adal chil\u00addren have entered a state of enjoy\u00adment.
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\nThe ancients said: \u201cQui\u00adet as a vir\u00adgin, swift as a rab\u00adbit.\u201d In fact, chil\u00addren\u2019s edu\u00adca\u00adtion should also com\u00adbine move\u00adment and still\u00adness. In such an increas\u00ading\u00adly noisy world we live in, \u201cstill\u00adness\u201d is a lux\u00adu\u00adry in edu\u00adca\u00adtion.
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\nLet me talk about my Class 1 (2) again. That day, they lis\u00adtened to \u201cLove You For\u00adev\u00ader\u201d and enjoyed it very much. They had already lis\u00adtened to sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader \u201cwarm Tyran\u00adnosaurus Rex\u201d sto\u00adries by Miyan\u00adishi Tat\u00adsuya and loved them very much. Tyran\u00adnosaurus Rex, which rep\u00adre\u00adsents the image of feroc\u00adi\u00adty, strength, fear\u00adless\u00adness and even a bit of cru\u00adel\u00adty, is full of human touch in these sto\u00adries. If \u201cYou Look Deli\u00adcious\u201d rep\u00adre\u00adsents \u201cfather-son love\u201d, then \u201cI Am Tyran\u00adnosaurus Rex\u201d adds \u201cordi\u00adnary peo\u00adple\u2019s love\u201d to the par\u00adent\u00ading of par\u00adents, and \u201cYou Are So Good\u201d is \u201cfriends\u2019 love\u201d like broth\u00aders. And this new book \u201cLove You For\u00adev\u00ader\u201d is the strongest \u201cmoth\u00ader\u2019s love\u201d and a lit\u00adtle mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous \u201cfather\u2019s love\u201d. It is prob\u00ada\u00adbly these deep emo\u00adtions that deeply touched the chil\u00addren and made them fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded.
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\nAfter read\u00ading the sto\u00adry about the Tyran\u00adnosaurus Rex, the chil\u00addren were still not sat\u00adis\u00adfied, so we briefly dis\u00adcussed it. How\u00adev\u00ader, it was dif\u00adfi\u00adcult for the chil\u00addren in this class to hold an order\u00adly dis\u00adcus\u00adsion. They would soon wan\u00adder off and the whole class would be in chaos, so I stopped as soon as pos\u00adsi\u00adble and moved on to the next book, Sophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece.
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\nWhen read\u00ading to younger chil\u00addren, I usu\u00adal\u00adly open a few pages and share the pic\u00adtures with them in advance, pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly to pique their curios\u00adi\u00adty. How\u00adev\u00ader, after turn\u00ading a few pages of \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece,\u201d I noticed they weren\u2019t very enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic, per\u00adhaps because the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions were too sub\u00addued. I began read\u00ading, but after two or three pages, I noticed some of the chil\u00addren were rest\u00adless. After two more, half the chil\u00addren were unre\u00adspon\u00adsive. So I changed my approach mid\u00adway, focus\u00ading pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly on sto\u00adry\u00adtelling, dis\u00adcard\u00ading the some\u00adwhat flow\u00adery text and using the pic\u00adtures to tell the sto\u00adry. This final\u00adly calmed them down a bit, allow\u00ading me to fin\u00adish the sto\u00adry. The class was almost over.
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\nTelling sto\u00adries to these first graders is incred\u00adi\u00adbly tir\u00ading. I once taught two class\u00ades in a row, and it took me three days to recov\u00ader from the sore throat. But they\u2019re such love\u00adly kids, you can\u2019t get angry at them.
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\nIn the sec\u00adond class, I went to the sixth grade and read \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d to them.
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\nLi Jian, the sixth-grade home\u00adroom teacher, is a high\u00adly expe\u00adri\u00adenced Chi\u00adnese lan\u00adguage teacher. She reads aloud with great enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm and is a plea\u00adsure to lis\u00adten to. This semes\u00adter, she quick\u00adly found her groove. After try\u00ading a few books, she began shar\u00ading \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web\u201d with her class\u00admates. She not only reads it every Thurs\u00adday after\u00adnoon dur\u00ading read\u00ading class but also con\u00adtin\u00adues to do so dai\u00adly, inter\u00adspers\u00ading it with rec\u00adom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtions for oth\u00ader books. The class\u2019s read\u00ading progress has improved rapid\u00adly, and hap\u00adpi\u00adly read\u00ading a book has become a com\u00admon occur\u00adrence. In par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, the chil\u00addren are deeply drawn to \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web,\u201d and their love for it is grow\u00ading. While only a small num\u00adber of stu\u00addents ini\u00adtial\u00adly tru\u00adly engaged, near\u00adly every\u00adone became engrossed in the sto\u00adry, falling in love with the spi\u00adder named Char\u00adlotte and the piglet named Wilbur. The sec\u00adond half of the nov\u00adel was a col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive effort for the entire class, and they even staged a short play about it, which they per\u00adformed at a school par\u00adty. (See link:Three things that touched me on April 17th<\/a>)
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\nI did\u00adn\u2019t inter\u00adact with this class often, only cov\u00ader\u00ading it when Xiao Ai was tem\u00adporar\u00adi\u00adly over\u00adwhelmed. But those few times left a pro\u00adfound impres\u00adsion, and I even remem\u00adber the names of near\u00adly half the chil\u00addren in the class. (To be hon\u00adest, I can\u2019t even remem\u00adber the names of most of the first graders.) We shared \u201cCourage\u201d and \u201cYou Look Deli\u00adcious.\u201d Sixth graders can also read the same pic\u00adture book that oth\u00aders might con\u00adsid\u00ader kinder\u00adgarten, though the approach is slight\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent. For exam\u00adple, in that book, we first read it aloud. This is the same for both young and old chil\u00addren. They need to ful\u00adly enjoy the sto\u00adry before engag\u00ading in sub\u00adse\u00adquent activ\u00adi\u00adties. How\u00adev\u00ader, sixth graders already have strong think\u00ading and dis\u00adcus\u00adsion skills, so sim\u00adply lis\u00adten\u00ading to the sto\u00adry is some\u00adwhat of a waste and won\u2019t sat\u00adis\u00adfy them. So, after read\u00ading the book, we played a \u201ccatch the ghost\u201d game, where we searched for ques\u00adtions. This game involves group col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion, dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, debate, and nego\u00adti\u00ada\u00adtion, ulti\u00admate\u00adly select\u00ading the \u201cthree most valu\u00adable ques\u00adtions.\u201d This game method can be ref\u00ader\u00adenced in the last chap\u00adter of \u201cCre\u00adat\u00ading a Chil\u00addren\u2019s Read\u00ading Envi\u00adron\u00adment,\u201d but of course, it needs to be mod\u00adi\u00adfied to suit the char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtics of Chi\u00adnese chil\u00addren. Even I had\u00adn\u2019t antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded the chil\u00addren\u2019s response. Although we could\u00adn\u2019t agree on which three ques\u00adtions were most valu\u00adable by the end of get out of class, we all found it incred\u00adi\u00adbly engag\u00ading: It turns out the same book, viewed from a dif\u00adfer\u00adent per\u00adspec\u00adtive, can become a whole new book! These kinds of dis\u00adcus\u00adsions nev\u00ader require defin\u00adi\u00adtive answers.
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\nI know that \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web\u201d is the favorite of the stu\u00addents in this class, so in the May activ\u00adi\u00adty I spe\u00adcial\u00adly found the movie adapt\u00aded from it, \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web\u201d. In the read\u00ading class on a Thurs\u00adday after\u00adnoon, they fin\u00adished watch\u00ading it and were also fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded by it.
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\nHow would you feel if there is a book that you love very much and it is loved by a group of chil\u00addren, a group of chil\u00addren you love?
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\nSo, in my last read\u00ading class with them, I delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly chose \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d.
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\nAfter this class, I\u2019ll be leav\u00ading for Sichuan for a while. By the time I return, the schools here will have already closed for the hol\u00adi\u00addays, and these sixth-graders will be grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading soon. So, you could say this is my last class with these chil\u00addren. I\u2019ll miss them, and I hope they\u2019ll occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly remem\u00adber Uncle Ajia, the sto\u00adry\u00adteller.
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\nOn that sleepy ear\u00adly sum\u00admer after\u00adnoon, I read to them from Sophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece. Unlike in first grade, I did\u00adn\u2019t have to man\u00adage audi\u00adence dis\u00adci\u00adpline. I sim\u00adply held the book, fac\u00ading the entire class, and read to them word for word. They lis\u00adtened in com\u00adplete silence. I noticed only one boy, engrossed in a new\u00adly bor\u00adrowed book, seemed a lit\u00adtle annoyed at first by my voice, but grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly he put his book down.
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\n\u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d might not be a book every\u00adone will love, but I\u2019m cer\u00adtain the chil\u00addren in this class will enjoy it, as they\u2019re so fond of \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web.\u201d The pic\u00adture book and the nov\u00adel are, in a way, incred\u00adi\u00adbly similar\u2014not just in form, but in spir\u00adit. As I reached the last few pages, I felt a lump in my throat. The sto\u00adry and the atmos\u00adphere I was expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading moved me so deeply that I could\u00adn\u2019t con\u00adtin\u00adue. I cleared my throat and con\u00adtin\u00adued read\u00ading until the end. After clos\u00ading the book, it took a few sec\u00adonds for every\u00adone to recov\u00ader.
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\nI told the chil\u00addren that today might be our last shared read\u00ading. I chose this book to share with you for two rea\u00adsons: First, it\u2019s a pic\u00adture book. You\u2019ll soon grad\u00adu\u00adate and enter mid\u00addle school. I believe you\u2019ll be exposed to a vari\u00adety of books in your future school\u00ading, but pic\u00adture books are unlike\u00adly to be yours. Few teach\u00aders or par\u00adents would con\u00adsid\u00ader it nec\u00ades\u00adsary for you to read this kind of book. But I hope you\u2019ll still read it if you have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when you become par\u00adents (don\u2019t laugh, that\u2019s not too far off). Please remem\u00adber to share this kind of book with your chil\u00addren. Anoth\u00ader rea\u00adson is that this sto\u00adry is so much like a book! \u2014 At this point, sev\u00ader\u00adal chil\u00addren could\u00adn\u2019t help but shout, \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web\u201d \u2014 By the way, let\u2019s talk about these two books togeth\u00ader.
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\nThe con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion that day was rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly free-flow\u00ading. It pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly revolved around the sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties and dif\u00adfer\u00adences between Sophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece and Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web: What were the sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties? What were the dif\u00adfer\u00adences? What were the main char\u00adac\u00adters in each sto\u00adry? How were these char\u00adac\u00adters relat\u00aded? In oth\u00ader words, were there any sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties or dif\u00adfer\u00adences between the char\u00adac\u00adters in the two sto\u00adries? \u2014 This is because both sto\u00adries fea\u00adture a spi\u00adder as their pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist. We chat\u00adted about these top\u00adics for about 20 min\u00adutes, quite ani\u00admat\u00aded. Final\u00adly, I fol\u00adlowed the plot lines they had pro\u00advid\u00aded and asked two ques\u00adtions: The spi\u00adder dies in both sto\u00adries. What are the sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties and dif\u00adfer\u00adences between these two deaths? In Sophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece, a baby is born, while in Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web, Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s chil\u00addren are born. Are there any con\u00adnec\u00adtions between the two? These were chal\u00adleng\u00ading top\u00adics. A few chil\u00addren shared their thoughts, but most felt they could\u00adn\u2019t artic\u00adu\u00adlate them, so the top\u00adic was dropped.
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\nI don\u2019t actu\u00adal\u00adly know the defin\u00adi\u00adtive answers to these two ques\u00adtions, but I do have a sense of what they might mean. So I told them the sto\u00adry of E.B. White, the author of Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web: his ori\u00adgins, his work, his jour\u00adney to estab\u00adlish a farm, cul\u00adti\u00advate the land, and raise pigs, his essay \u201cThe Death of a Pig,\u201d the process of writ\u00ading Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web, and his life\u00adlong admi\u00adra\u00adtion for the author, Thore\u00adau\u2026 The more we learn about this author, the more we can reflect on the real issues raised in his work. In my under\u00adstand\u00ading, Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s death and the birth of her chil\u00addren were nat\u00adur\u00adal process\u00ades. Char\u00adlotte exhaust\u00aded her\u00adself help\u00ading Wilbur, which has\u00adtened her death, but also acquired a dif\u00adfer\u00adent kind of val\u00adue. Sophie\u2019s death was also a nat\u00adur\u00adal process; she was near\u00ading death from old age. The birth of the baby had noth\u00ading to do with Sophie\u2019s death, but when Sophie decid\u00aded to do some\u00adthing for the baby, they became con\u00adnect\u00aded, has\u00adten\u00ading Sophie\u2019s death and acquir\u00ading a sim\u00adi\u00adlar kind of val\u00adue. There\u00adfore, the birth of Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s chil\u00addren and the birth of the baby are essen\u00adtial to both sto\u00adries and hold sym\u00adbol\u00adic sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcance.
\n   
\nFinal\u00adly, I thought of O. Hen\u00adry\u2019s \u201cThe Last Leaf\u201d and briefly told them the gen\u00ader\u00adal plot. I think \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d is some\u00adwhat sim\u00adi\u00adlar to that short sto\u00adry. I hope the chil\u00addren will have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to read this nov\u00adel in the future, as well as some of E.B. White\u2019s essays.
\n   
\nThe sec\u00adond class was over. Li Ke and her class\u00admates had also suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly com\u00adplet\u00aded the read\u00ading lessons for sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader class\u00ades. Some of them need\u00aded to leave ear\u00adly, so I asked them to leave togeth\u00ader.
\n   
\nFor the third class, I went to the fifth grade, and I hadn\u2019t decid\u00aded which book to read to them or talk about.
\n   
\nZhang Peipei, the fifth-grade home\u00adroom teacher, is a ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded Chi\u00adnese lan\u00adguage teacher and one of the first to get into the groove dur\u00ading the read\u00ading exper\u00adi\u00adment. While she\u2019s a bit weak at read\u00ading sto\u00adries aloud, she\u2019s more adept at telling them from the book, a bit like a sto\u00adry\u00adteller. The fifth-grade class is very dis\u00adci\u00adplined, though some\u00adtimes a bit less active. Per\u00adhaps due to their teacher\u2019s per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, they gen\u00aduine\u00adly enjoy lis\u00adten\u00ading to sto\u00adries and are also very active in their inde\u00adpen\u00addent read\u00ading, remain\u00ading qui\u00adet and order\u00adly as they con\u00adtin\u00adue their silent read\u00ading.
\n   
\nI\u2019ve shared a few books with my fifth graders, and they can\u2019t seem to get enough of sto\u00adries. If I don\u2019t tell them a sto\u00adry, they don\u2019t seem to want to hear any\u00adthing else. So, I say, okay.
\n   
\nI took out the two books I\u2019d just read, \u201cSophie\u2019s Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d and \u201cLove You For\u00adev\u00ader,\u201d and asked them to pick one to talk about (I was real\u00adly tired and did\u00adn\u2019t want to talk about two more). Can you guess? They chose \u201cLove You For\u00adev\u00ader\u201d with\u00adout hes\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion, because they also loved Miyan\u00adishi Tat\u00adsuya\u2019s \u201cTyran\u00adnosaurus Rex.\u201d
\n   
\nMaybe you\u2019re a lit\u00adtle curi\u00adous: What\u2019s the dif\u00adfer\u00adence between read\u00ading this book to a first grad\u00ader and read\u00ading it to a fifth grad\u00ader? Should it be dif\u00adfer\u00adent?
\n   
\nMy expe\u00adri\u00adence is that there\u2019s real\u00adly no real dif\u00adfer\u00adence, but because your audi\u00adences dif\u00adfer sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly, when telling a sto\u00adry face-to-face, you\u2019re influ\u00adenced by their reac\u00adtions, so you have to approach it dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly. Speak\u00ading of this sub\u00adtle dif\u00adfer\u00adence, I\u2019d say that when telling a sto\u00adry to first graders or younger chil\u00addren, you focus more on the sto\u00adry\u2019s inher\u00adent inter\u00adest, and you can\u2019t help but sim\u00adu\u00adlate var\u00adi\u00adous sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions, like shout\u00ading \u201cbang\u201d when hit\u00adting a rock, and using more ono\u00admatopeia. When telling a sto\u00adry to old\u00ader chil\u00addren, you might focus more on cre\u00adat\u00ading a live\u00adly atmos\u00adphere through lan\u00adguage, striv\u00ading to let the book\u2019s lan\u00adguage move the audi\u00adence. Sim\u00adply put, the for\u00admer is more like sto\u00adry\u00adtelling, the lat\u00adter is more like read\u00ading. This isn\u2019t nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly true for every\u00adone, but it\u2019s how I approach it.
\n   
\nPer\u00adhaps for the chil\u00addren in the first grade (2) class, the new sto\u00adry about the Maiasaur and the Tyran\u00adnosaurus Rex was just \u201cvery, very fun\u201d, but I had a dif\u00adfer\u00adent feel\u00ading with my fifth grade class. They thought the sto\u00adry was \u201cvery shock\u00ading\u201d. If you are also very involved in read\u00ading this sto\u00adry, you will feel a lit\u00adtle choked up and unable to read it by the last few pages. The moth\u00ader\u00adly and father\u00adly love in the sto\u00adry is very prim\u00adi\u00adtive, and there\u00adfore very pro\u00adfound.
\n   
\nAfter read\u00ading this sto\u00adry, I longed to have a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion with the fifth graders. We\u2019d nev\u00ader had such a relaxed con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion about books before. Although this was only the last class of the semes\u00adter, what about next? After the Olympics, how many of these migrant chil\u00addren would leave, and how many would return to this school? How would the read\u00ading exper\u00adi\u00adment go next semes\u00adter?
\n   
\nI\u2019d like to have a casu\u00adal chat with them, per\u00adhaps about \u201cT. Rex\u201d and Miyan\u00adishi Tat\u00adsuya. They\u2019ve all read those four pic\u00adture books and loved them all. Which one is their favorite? Which char\u00adac\u00adter in each sto\u00adry is their favorite? Who do they dis\u00adlike the most? What are their rea\u00adsons? Also, each book fea\u00adtures a dif\u00adfer\u00adent dinosaur. Which dinosaur char\u00adac\u00adters are they? Are there any con\u00adnec\u00adtions between the dinosaur char\u00adac\u00adters in the books? Are there any sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties between the four books? What top\u00adics do they dis\u00adcuss? Are there any com\u00admon themes? And so on and so forth. I believe most of them have some\u00adthing to say about these ques\u00adtions, and they can actu\u00adal\u00adly offer some clues. But it\u2019s clear that this class isn\u2019t ready for such a book dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, and most of them aren\u2019t very inter\u00adest\u00aded. How\u00adev\u00ader, they\u2019re very inter\u00adest\u00aded in the pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty that Miyan\u00adishi Tat\u00adsuya will con\u00adtin\u00adue writ\u00ading sto\u00adries about \u201cT. Rex.\u201d What will the next chap\u00adters be like?
\n   
\nJudg\u00ading by the chil\u00addren\u2019s reac\u00adtions, they still pre\u00adferred to lis\u00adten to sto\u00adries. If not, they pre\u00adferred to read on their own. Many were already engrossed in their books, hav\u00ading just bor\u00adrowed new books from the pre\u00advi\u00adous class. I felt that was enough, so I threw out one final question\u2014a small sur\u00advey, actu\u00adal\u00adly. I explained that the inspec\u00adtor was now in the Sichuan dis\u00adas\u00adter area. I\u2019d been there once dur\u00ading Chil\u00addren\u2019s Day (and even told the chil\u00addren there about \u201cYou Look Deli\u00adcious\u201d). Tomor\u00adrow I\u2019d be back to replace the inspec\u00adtor and bring some books for a read\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adty. Could you give me some sug\u00adges\u00adtions on what to bring? The chil\u00addren were quite inter\u00adest\u00aded in this ques\u00adtion and actu\u00adal\u00adly offered some sug\u00adges\u00adtions, but unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, the amount of books I could check in was lim\u00adit\u00aded.
\n   
\nBefore the end of the third class, I left the fifth grade ear\u00adly and said good\u00adbye to Teacher Zhang and the chil\u00addren. We made an appoint\u00adment to see each oth\u00ader next semes\u00adter.
\n   
\nI returned to the library, packed my things, said good\u00adbye to Teacher Wang, and left the school with my things on my back.
\n   
\nWhen I left that day, I was the only one there. For some rea\u00adson, the things I was car\u00adry\u00ading felt par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly heavy.   
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