Miss rumphius book
He tells her that she must also make the world more beautiful, but he doesn’t tell her how. She decides because of the example that he set, she too wants to travel to faraway places and live by the sea. The book opens with Miss Rumphius sitting with her grandfather and being enchanted by his life story.
But how do we acquire these values? Miss Rumphius illustrates two ways that this is possible: explicitly (listening to people) and implicitly (observing people and following their example). Values, in their simplest form, are the principles or judgments about what in life is important.
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Read aloud video by KidLit TV Guidelines for Philosophical DiscussionĮvery person has values, whether they know specifically what they are, or whether they just live by them without realizing it.
She presents the same challenge to her great niece at the conclusion of the book. The next summer she travels, spreading lupine seeds. She has difficulty coming up with a way to do this until she plants lupines and the wind carries the seeds. Miss Rumphius’s grandfather tells her to make the world more beautiful.
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Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary Miss Rumphius explores one child’s journey in learning how to make the world more beautiful.