One Green Apple

Name: One Green Apple
Author: Eve Bunting

A story that explores respect and opens a conversation with your child.

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♥ This book teaches: Respect. seeing the worth in every person.

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Definition: Respect is acting with kindness, politeness, and consideration of the other, having good manners and treating all things carefully. In short: Value others, honor differences. Summary: A new student named Farah joins her class on a field trip to a farm. Her home country and her new country are very different. She’s the only one at her school with a head scarf and she doesn't speak any English. Farah shares her thoughts about this new experience as her class goes out to the apple orchard on a farm wagon. Even though so much is new, there are some things that are the same. She enjoys making apple cider with a couple of students, and begins to open up enough to say her first English word, apple. This story is a simple, yet powerful reminder that in spite of external differences, we are all part of the same amazing and wonderful human family. Lesson Objectives:

Students demonstrate a greater sensitivity towards those who don’t speak their language and whose customs are different than their own.

Guiding Questions:

Where did Farah’s class go on a field trip?
How is Farah different from the other students in her class?
Do you think it was hard for her to leave her friends and her native country?
Farah went to school where she didn’t know anyone, she dressed differently than the other students, and she couldn’t speak the language. Do you know anyone like that at your school or did you ever experience that?
Do you think Farah feels more hopeful after the field trip that she will eventually learn English and make friends at her new school?
If someone like Farah came to your school, would you introduce yourself and try to get to know her?
Do you think it’s hard to learn a new language that’s very different from your own? Why or why not?
Have you ever visited an orchard, ridden in a wagon, or made apple cider? If not, does it sound like something you’d enjoy?
When you look around at your classmates and other kids your age, what are some of the differences you notice? What are some similarities?
Do you think the world will ever be like a big happy family in which everyone is able to get along? Why or why not?

🌿 Virtue Connection: Respect means seeing the worth in every person.

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One Green Apple

by Eve Bunting

Guiding Questions

Students demonstrate a greater sensitivity towards those who don’t speak their language and whose customs are different than their own.

Guiding Questions:

Where did Farah’s class go on a field trip?
How is Farah different from the other students in her class?
Do you think it was hard for her to leave her friends and her native country?
Farah went to school where she didn’t know anyone, she dressed differently than the other students, and she couldn’t speak the language. Do you know anyone like that at your school or did you ever experience that?
Do you think Farah feels more hopeful after the field trip that she will eventually learn English and make friends at her new school?
If someone like Farah came to your school, would you introduce yourself and try to get to know her?
Do you think it’s hard to learn a new language that’s very different from your own? Why or why not?
Have you ever visited an orchard, ridden in a wagon, or made apple cider? If not, does it sound like something you’d enjoy?
When you look around at your classmates and other kids your age, what are some of the differences you notice? What are some similarities?
Do you think the world will ever be like a big happy family in which everyone is able to get along? Why or why not?

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