Fly Eagle Fly – Diversity

Big idea:  Understand the message/lesson from this folktale and how this tale from another country can relate to your own life. Diversity!

Also – review Dictionary Sources to answer information needs.

This story comes from James Kwegyir Aggrey in the 1920’s.  Foreward by Archbishop Desmond TuTu.

Brain Break – original song by Steve Miller Band. Every time you hear Fly – spread your wings.

Frank Wouters

 

Steven Johnson

  • The Eagle is the King of Birds, but we will train it to be a chicken.

  • It will eat the food of a chicken.

  • It walks like a chicken, talks like a chicken, eats like a chicken it is a chicken.

  • Look at the sun , Eagle. When it rises you will rise with it. You belong to the sky, not to the earth.

  • Stretch forth your wings and fly.

Kagan Strategy: Numbered Heads

Why did it bother the neighbor, that the farmer raised the eagle as a chicken?

What is the theme/ message or purpose the storyteller [author] wants us to know?

Use the right Reference Source. Dictionary – guide words.

1. Define Chicken as used in the sentence

“It walks like a chicken, talks like a chicken, eats like a chicken it is a chicken.”

2. Define Eagle.

This month we are celebrating the birthday of a man who wanted all people to soar and be free.

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