In this version of "The Blind Men and the Elephant" based on a poem by Rumi, Persian villagers try to figure out what strange animal in a dark barn has arrived from India.
Reveals how things that seem little are actually very important, such as a little light that is really a welcoming light, or a little idea that is actually a fantastic idea.
Presents strategies for literacy teaching that show children how to communicate through visual texts such as maps, diagrams, tables, and time lines. Discusses the value of this form of literacy and includes basic graphic design instruction for classroom publishing projects.
From his mountaintop home, Mr. Peeknuff observes the people below to be very tiny; nor does hes perception improve when a disaster brings him down from the mountain to help.
Look begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived ?ordinary.? Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities?taking a walk around the block?we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you?ll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
Sadie, a wealthy, success-oriented sixteen-year-old joins the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program as an observer in the head of Ford, a troubled, possibly murderous boy, with whom Sadie falls in love.
