To teach children about the world and global warming. It can be used to encourage children to take an active part in protecting the environment in PSHCE lessons. They could calculate their carbon footprint and make a conscious effort to reduce it for example by walking to school instead of getting the bus, or driving.

The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami

Write a prequel to this story that explains where the magic red pen came from. Who owned it before the girl? Who made it? Why does it have special powers? As you explore the illustrations in the book, try to find features that might be clues about the rest of the story. One group of second-generation members made the trip together with their survivor or former refugee parents. Others went after their parents’ death. Those with elderly parents, unable to travel, went without them but often communicated to them how they had retraced their family history. Some undertook the journey to help them come to terms with the burden of the past. Others saw it as part of the grieving process for a lost world and family that they would never know.

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Anyone seriously or even casually looking for answers in life, this is the book. What should be "MY" role in this vast world, how can "I" help myself and others also, these questions were cleared when i read this book. Really a VERY GOOD one, positively inspiration and practical. This book won the Sendak fellow - an award named after the author of ‘Where the wild things are’. The book is has a clear and powerful message of conservation – the pictures in the book aren’t very colour, but they portray the bleak future of a world which fails to converse its environment. The book shows the grey images of polluted cities, and the clear cutting of rainforest. An poignant discourse on the idea of "home," especially in a situation--so intense in Ireland, but resonant everywhere--that one might dub "traumatic," if we take traumatic to gesture at the paralysis that comes from a culture dangerously steeped in its past, too enamored with things that are lost. Foundations crumble and fragmentation ensues, and this is made painfully apparent in Bolger's characters and, impressively, embodied in his narrative structure.

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The Journey Intensive gives you a powerful experience of the work and a set of skills that you can take with you and use in all areas of your life. Come prepared to do the work on yourself! Figure 16.2.Merilyn at Denk Mal am Ort event in the apartment courtyard in Berlin with her interpreter, Almut Rietzschel (Photo by Matthias Schirmer).

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Create a video that shows the illustrations in the book and is accompanied by your own narration / speech. Westerners especially those who have an Indian heritage can relate to the stories of great individuals like Radhanath Swami. He is a living saint, master and it has been my great fortune to have his darshan on two occasions. Look at the different characters in the story. Can you create your own illustrations of them? This video has some tips from the author / illustrator: Getting older children to love reading isn't necessarily about fiction and fairy tales.Here are just a few of our favourites to get them excited to read.