"Imagine that your home is on fire. You're allowed to save one thing. Your family and pets are safe, so don't① ▲ about them. What is the most important thing you have? It can be any size. "
Linda Sue wrote a book The One Thing You'd Save. In it, a teacher named Ms. Chang invites her students to ② ▲ of the question above. She wants to challenge her class to name the most important thing to them. Some students know the answer right away.
Others come to their decisions more slowly. And some students change their③ ▲ when they hear their classmates' answers. As for the answers, some choose baseball cards or toy animals. One picks a sweater that has been passed down for generations (几代人). Another chooses a box of memories about...
Even Ms. Chang shares her own choice in the end. It is a really thought-provoking (引人深思的) question. As the students are trying to answer it, they discover more about one another and themselves.
The book is a collection of poems. The writer tells the story through narrative (故事体的) poems. What makes the book popular is that it leads people to think deeply.
The book uses black-and-white pictures to show the objects the students choose. When seeing the pictures, people may think of scenes of their homes, the classroom and more. The pictures offer wordless moments that encourage readers to think more before they move on.
Want to know what matters most to the students? Read this book.
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