{"id":1086,"date":"2015-05-20T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2015-05-20T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:39:22","slug":"responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2015\/05\/20\/responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a Chinese folk tale to my students titled\u00a0“Ma Lien and the Magic Brush.” \u00a0<\/strong>It’s a story about a poor peasant farmer named Ma Lien who’s greatest dream was to be an artist. \u00a0Being so poor, he did not have even enough money to buy a paint brush. \u00a0He would use a stone to scratch on a flat rock or his fingers to draw in the wet sand of the riverbank. \u00a0One night, as he lay in his bed looking at all the pictures he had drawn on his clay walls, there was a flash of light and an old wizard appeared. \u00a0The wizard told Ma Lien that he had worked very hard and earned a brush. \u00a0His only words were to use it wisely because it had great power. As the story unfolded, others saw Ma Lien’s drawings come to life and they wanted to use his brush. \u00a0However, their creations didn’t come to life. My students realized that Ma Lein painted only things that would help others, while the other people painted things only to help themselves.<\/p>\n

I asked my students what they would paint if they were given a magical paint brush. \u00a0Look at their responses…\"FullSizeRender<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a Chinese folk tale to my students titled\u00a0“Ma Lien and the Magic Brush.” \u00a0It’s a story about a poor peasant farmer named Ma Lien who’s greatest dream was to be an artist. \u00a0Being so poor, he did not have even enough money to buy a paint brush. \u00a0He would use a stone to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}