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Three Cups of Tea— Examples of Teamwork and Charity Within the Story LISTEN TO THE WIND— SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS FOR EDUCATORS • Discuss the concepts of teamwork and charity with your students. Identify With the first cup of tea you are a stranger. Three Cups of Tea— examples of teamwork and charity within the story. Ask your students to With the second . a friend. each think of a time when they have worked together with others or been PRE & POST–READING DISCUSSION PROMPTS The Perfect Community Read charitable toward someone in the past. Have they ever been the recipient With the third cup of tea, you are family. • Ask your students how they feel about school. Why is learning important? of such a gesture? How did it feel to have someone give something What makes a school a school? As a class, make a list of items that one special to them? How does it feel to give? Why is this important? would find in a typical school (i.e. desks, pencils, paper, gym equipment). Three Cups of Tea: Then ask your students how they would feel if, like the children of Korphe, The Young Reader’s Edition ART they didn’t have access to these items, or even to indoor classrooms or a One Man’s Journey to Change the World . • Listen to the Wind is illustrated in an art form called collage. Ask the art One Child at a Time teacher. teacher in your school to collaborate on a special lesson with you. Describe By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Adapted by Sarah Thomson from the #1 New York Times bestseller what a collage is to your students. Read Listen to the Wind and invite GEOGRAPHY Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall students to identify places on the pages where they notice elements of • Before reading Listen to the Wind, examine the scrapbook in the final 978-0-8037-3392-3 (HC) • $16.99 collage art. Set out crayons, glue, and paper scraps of all types and sizes 978-0-14-241412-5 (PB) • $8.99 MAKE A DIFFERENCE—READ. DISCUSS. GIVE BACK. pages of the book. Guide your students as they use a world map to locate (including newspaper, wallpaper, and regular colored paper) so that the Ages 8 up • Grades 3 up the continent, country, region or state, and finally the town where your Whether your community is your family, children can create their own collage art. school is located. Then help your students do the same exercise, this time In 1993, Greg Mortenson started to climb K2 in honor of his younger sister, but your school, your library, your local bookstore, locating the continent of Asia, the country of Pakistan, the region of when another member of his group got sick, they turned around, and Greg your town, your state, or your region of the country, LANGUAGE ARTS you can use the story of Three Cups of Tea Baltistan, and the village of Korphe. Explain the differences between became lost in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into a poor village, • Listen to the Wind is a true story—or nonfiction. Discuss the difference where the village chief and his people took him in. Moved by their kindness, he to create a common dialogue continents, countries, regions or states, and towns. GREG MORTENSON & DAVID OLIVER RELIN between fiction and nonfiction with your students. Ask them to brainstorm promised to return and build a school for the children. Over the next decade, between every member of your group, Adapted by SARAH THOMSON • Foreword by JANE GOODALL story ideas that fall into both categories and to then choose one fiction Mortenson built more than seventy eight schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. from preschool children to grandparents. GUIDED READING and one nonfiction idea to expand into a full-length paragraph. Students He has dedicated his life to building literacy and peace, one child at a time. • Read Listen to the Wind aloud to your class, pausing at important Listen to the Wind and the young reader’s and adult editions of Three Cups of can also be encouraged to write stories that complement their collage Tea lend themselves perfectly to family, school, and community–wide reading A GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS, points during the story to reinforce information about plot. Encourage pieces. Listen to the Wind: and book club events. Perfectly geared to the interest and adapted to the STUDENTS, & COMMUNITIES your students to use clues from the text and their schema (personal The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea comprehension levels of every age, a group discussion of the story of Greg background experience) as they make predictions as to what may hap- By Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth COMMUNITY SERVICE Mortenson and his journey to change the world will make for an unforgettable pen next in the book. Stop the read-aloud after reading, “He felt the Illustrated by Susan L. Roth event. Encourage your school district, local library, community, and state to • Visit www.penniesforpeace.org to learn more about the Pennies for Peace™ wind blow cold against his face, and he understood.” Ask your students 978-0-8037-3392-3 (HC) • $16.99 embrace the themes of peace and generosity by planning a Three Cups of Tea- program and how your class, your school, and your community can help. Ages 6–8 • Grades 1–3 to make predictions about what Dr. Greg decides he wants based program this school year. Encourage your students to design penny collecting boxes and take part in to give Korphe. Continue to read the story and ask your students to the program. Explain that while pennies may be worth very little in the The remarkable story of Greg Mortenson’s promise to build a school for the Send an email about or pictures of your event to either confirm or adjust their predictions. Pause the read-aloud again villagers who saved his life is now perfect for reading aloud! Told in the voice [email protected] United States, in Afghanistan and Pakistan: after reading, “There was no bridge.” Ask your students to identify a of Korphe’s children, Listen to the Wind is the story of Greg Mortenson’s first “Building bridges of peace, one penny at a time.” possible problem that has occurred within the storyline and to make building project in Pakistan. This lush picture book illuminates the humanity and 1 penny = one pencil culture of a relevant and distant part of the world in gorgeous collage, while predictions about a probable solution. Continue to read the story and Pennies for Peace™ is a service learning program that aims to broaden 2 pennies = one eraser sharing a riveting example of how one person can change thousands of lives— again, ask your students to either confirm or adjust their predictions as students’ cultural horizons and teach them about their capacities $2 or $3 = one teacher’s pay for a day all in language appropriate for even the youngest of readers. the story progresses. Once more, stop the read-aloud after reading, “We as philanthropists. Visit www.penniesforpeace.org or email $20 = one student’s school supplies for one year are the children of Korphe. We live in a village in the mountains of [email protected] to learn how you, your school, and your community $600 = one teacher’s annual salary Also Available— can work together to become members of a global family dedicated to peace. Pakistan.” Ask students to predict what will follow these lines, which $5,000 = support for an existing school for one year The original #1 New York Times bestselling adult edition first appeared at the very beginning of the story. Students should make $50,000 = one school building and support for up to five years Dial Books for Young Readers • Puffin Books suggestions, based on clues from the text, as to the different ways Three Cups of Tea: Divisions of Penguin Young Readers Group the children might describe themselves and their lives after the school One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . www.penguin.com/teachersandlibrarians One School at a Time www.threecupsoftea.com was finished. By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 978-0-670-03482-6 (HC) • $25.95 This discussion guide has been provided by Penguin Young Readers Group for classroom, community, library, and book club use. It may be reproduced in its entirety or excerpted for these purposes. 978-0-14-303825-2 (PB) • $15.00 DISCUSSION GUIDE ISBN: 978-0-14-241317-3 ABOUT THE BOOK • What cultural differences come to light in the time it takes to build the THREE CUPS OF TEA— cups of tea with someone, you become family. Afterward, discuss the The discussion questions and activities bridge and school in Korphe? What does Haji Ali do with Greg’s plumb RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES similarities you see between items on your list and Western customs. Has your understanding of Central Asia changed after reading this book? While attempting to climb K-2, the world’s that follow are intended to enhance line and account book as the building process proceeds? When the FOR STUDENTS & COMMUNITIES school is finished, what does Greg discover about the account keeping second-highest mountain peak, Greg Mortenson your reading of Three Cups of Tea • Greg also embraces the local language of the areas he visits. Review for the project? suddenly found himself lost, alone, and freezing and Listen to the Wind. • The foreword to Three Cups of Tea is written by Jane Goodall. Learn more the glossary in the back of the book. Which words are new to you? What cold.
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