Before we read
the book each student got a paper heart.
Each time Chrysanthemum was teased because of her name, we crumpled up
the heart. Every time someone did something nice to her, we tried our best to
smooth it out. By the end of the story, the heart was a wrinkled mess that
could not be smoothed out perfectly.
The students got the connection that our own hearts feel wrinkled and
crumpled sometimes when we don't like what someone says. Words do hurt. We then
tried to put band-aids on the heart as a way to show that we can own our mistakes
and apologize, and that the heart will probably still be wrinkled, but it is
healing.
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