Johnny Appleseed
Retold By: Steven Kellogg
Traditional or Folk Literature
Even when Johnny Appleseed, aka John Chapman, was a young boy he loved picking apples from his family’s apple trees. He was inspired to love all of nature and ended up traveling across Ohio and Indiana planting apple seeds and living in the wilderness. People retold stories to their children of his adventures, such as how he battled a rattlesnake with his foot, but since his foot was as tough as elephant’s hide it didn’t penetrate.
This is a fun story that I would use during earth week. I would read Johnny Appleseed and talk about how he cared about nature. I’d teach my students about the importance of caring for the environment and how Johnny Appleseed chose to love nature and didn’t want to harm it. I would have them all write about one way they could protect the environment and then have them practice putting their ideas into action for the week. At the end of the week we would talk about how proactive they were with doing their ideas.
This is a fun story that I would use during earth week. I would read Johnny Appleseed and talk about how he cared about nature. I’d teach my students about the importance of caring for the environment and how Johnny Appleseed chose to love nature and didn’t want to harm it. I would have them all write about one way they could protect the environment and then have them practice putting their ideas into action for the week. At the end of the week we would talk about how proactive they were with doing their ideas.
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