Learning and action through service-learning give youth purpose to "do well and do good" because they see what they do matters and creates real solutions. This teaching and learning tool cultivates a caring community and prepares young people for responsible civic engagement, as well as college...
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Once there was a young man named Tashi who was not very skilled in the ways of the world. Try as he
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A Palestinian (Arab) Tale: A poor woodcutter drops a fava bean down a well and starts moaning. The spirits who live in the well give him a series of magic objects to keep him quiet. He loses the first two to his neighbors, but then regains them. Even foolishness is sometimes rewarded with useful gifts.
An Indian (Buddhist) Tale: The Buddha-to-be, born as a quail, instructs his flock how to escape the hunter’s nets by working together. He then encourages them to move deeper into the forest in order to practice cooperation. Some of the quail refuse to leave, and as a result of their arguing, they are caught by the hunter and perish.
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In a certain town there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdeich by name. He had a tiny room in a basement, the
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There lived a hunter in the north who had a wife and one child. His lodge
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Rabbi Bunam used to tell young men who came to him for the first time the story of Rabbi Eisik, son of
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There was a man named Tiggak whose only son drowned in the sea. And such a powerful grief came to the
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We'll talk about Thunder-Lightning and the Eagle. They say that Thunder and the Eagle
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