Sunday, February 21, 2010

On Life and History

Spore Sprout's six-year-old was tasked to produce for her teacher a log of what she read over the CNY school holidays.  She could pick her reading materials but would need to read aloud to a parent.  For each chunk of reading that she chose to do, she had to "tell a fact you learned" in her log.
Today being the final day of the holidays,  Small Sprout enlisted my help to get the project started and finished on time.
She wanted an important book, and chose a dictionary (ed. The Cat-in-the-Hat).  After wading through A and B and noting that "Many words start with A," she decided that My Bible Story Book would be a better choice.
We agreed that given the heft of the tome, a sensible approach was to tell a fact for each chapter of the book.  We rested soon following the fall of the Tower of Babel,  after she decided that she had done enough.  Despite the brevity of the effort, I was impressed by the keenness of her insights and pithiness of her observations, which I set forth below:

Overall observation: "There are many chapters in the Bible."
On the Creation: "At first, the water and land were mixed together."
On the Fall: "At first, Adam had fun."
On the Flood: "People became bad."
On the Tower of Babel: "The silly people thought they were strong."

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