Empathy
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Take Care by Madelyn Rosenberg
This simple verse story relays that kindness to the world is as easy as planting trees, tending to flowers, and being nice to animals. And being kind to others can be as simple as choosing nice words and sharing a smile. Because the world belongs to all of us!
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The “Present” Project
Watch a video with a surprise ending that will get you thinking and learning.
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Time to Complete : 15-30 minutes
Supplies Level : Light
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible by Leon Leyson
A memoir by one of the youngest Holocaust survivors describes his family’s forced relocation to the Krakow Ghetto, his endurance of torturous conditions imposed by Amon Goeth and his survival through the intervention of Oskar Schindler.
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The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how “all living things depend on one another” . . . and it works.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Story of the deformed bellringer Quasimodo who rescues a gypsy girl from the evil intentions of his guardian who wants to kill her.
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The Hundred Dresses by Eleanore Estes
As a poor immigrant, a young girl is teased about wearing the same faded dress to school everyday and so tells a great lie that she has one hundred dresses at her home, yet when the fib results in even more teasing, an event suddenly takes place that teaches them all an important lesson about friendship and compassion.
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The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
This story is about a boy named Brian, who is invisible. Nobody ever seems to notice him or include him. One day a new student arrives, Justin, and Brian is the first one to make him feel welcomed. Justin showed him kindness and it made Brian happy.
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The Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neill
Mary Jean (recess queen) controls the play ground and bullies her classmates until one day a brave new girl reaches out to her and becomes her friend.
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The Sneetches By Dr. Seuss
The Sneetches, by Dr. Seuss, some Sneetches had green stars on their bellies while others did not. Those stars werent so big. They were really so small. You might think such a thing wouldnt matter at all. However, the stars served as a source of discrimination until Sylvester McMonkey McBean came to town with a machine to add and remove stars, forcing the Sneetches to question their differences
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