CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: A Fir tree in a forest has one wish. It wishes to be as tall or as beautiful as the other trees. It is never happy because it is always wanting more than what it is. One day, it is finally taken aw ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The Emperor was a man who didn't care of anyone or anything except the clothes he wore. He had new clothes for every day, sometimes even every hour. When two swindlers came, claiming to have the be ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: An apple branch begins to think too highly of himself and looks down on the dandelions. The apple branch is then shown how the dandelions have their own importance. This is a fable about how everyo ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Imagine a pen claiming that it is the source of the poetry that is written with it. Or the ink. That is what happens in this story by Hans Christian Andersen. Although the poet uses the pen and i ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: This is a tale about buckwheat and how it was destroyed during a storm because the buckwheat thought he was too good to have to hide from the storm. It is a fable that tells of what happens to peop ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: When a man created a bunch of tin soldiers, he ran out of tin so one soldier was left with only one leg. When this soldier was given to a young boy, the soldier fell in love with a paper doll. He s ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Everyone has his own place and everything has its reason. This is what a beetle learned, after he set out on an adventure to discover his own wealth. He had lived in the stable of the King's horse, ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: When a star falls, a soul is going up to God or so the little girl in this story was told by her grandmother who had died. What she didn't know was that she was the one dying. She was freezing to ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Every child loves a good story. The boy in this story is no exception. His upstairs neighbor visits him and tells him a story of a dryad or elder-tree mother, when he is warming up from getting hi ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Our lives seem long compared to that of a fly. However, our lives are short to a tree. In this story by Hans Christian Andersen, an old oak pities flies because their lives are so short compared t ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Who can jump higher, a flea, a grasshopper, or a skipjack? They held a contest to find out and the winner would get the princess's hand in marriage. The skipjack ends up winning because he jumpe ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: "Read your book, Sarah," the teacher told the little Jewish girl while he was teaching the other students their scripture lesson. She was not allowed to listen because her father had pro ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Oh! the noble snail! He is the most aristocratic of them all. Why, he gets to be boiled and laid on a silver dish! Doesn't that sound genteel? The snails thought so, but because the castle is in ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Inge is a cruel presuming girl who dies and goes to hell, when she sinks in a moor and can hear the things said about her on earth. Most speak of her faults, but one girl only felt pity for her. ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: A goblin lives with a huckster who boards a student in his garret. The goblin lives there because of a tasty treat he gets at Christmas. That clever, little goblin knew where his jam came from and ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Imagine being in a field of flax, bathing in the sun, gently swaying in the breeze. Then you are cut down and tortured until you are something else. This story illustrates that things never really ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Oh! To go to the flower ball and watch the carnival rod dance the Mazurka! These are the things that little Ida sees after being told, by a student, that her flowers were hanging down and withere ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Eliza had a picture book that cost as much as half a kingdom and her brothers wrote on golden slates with diamond pencils; however, this didn't last. When their father married a wicked woman, Eliza ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The most beautiful swan in the garden had started life as an ugly duckling. He had been mistreated by his own family and ran away. He wandered the world alone. Finally, when he sees his own beaut ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: With the ringing of the church bell the boy's mother was given joy and confidence to finish bringing him into the world. He was born in poverty and grew up to join the military school, only to run ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The nightingale had such a beautiful song that it was considered the best in China, but the emperor had never even heard about it until he read about it in a book. He had his courtiers find it and ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: No one knows what a new year may offer. This story by Hans Christian Andersen personifies the months of the year. Your child will learn about the "personalities" of each month and the ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Roses wound around columns and crept along passages, but none of these roses was the sort to save the dying queen. The wise man said that she needed a rose from the garden of love, but not just a ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Everyone wants to be someone, to do something. This story by Hans Christian Andersen is about brothers who think differently about what it is to live a life of value. They all take on different pr ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: A flower bloomed and there was a pretty little maiden inside. That is how Thumbelina was born. She was so pretty that a mother toad took her away to marry her son. With the help of some fish, Th ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: There was an old house that stood on a street that was filled with new houses. No one liked the old house except for a little boy and the old man who lived in the old house. Eventually, the little ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Can you make soup from a sausage skewer? You probably have and don't even realize it. Making soup from a sausage skewer means making something out of nothing, or nothing much. In this story by Ha ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Nothing shines like the face of a child. In this story by Hans Christian Andersen, a tallow candle is given to a poor family by a rich lady. The tallow candle doesn't want to go and thinks that i ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: This is a short story which shows how rumors can spread quickly and end up as a story of something that never actually happened. One hen overhears another hen talking about plucking her loose feath ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The maids used it as a place to dry pots and pans and the children climbed on it. It was an old grave stone with the inscription nearly gone. While the family was talking about the old grave-ston ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR ONLINE STORY: Hope is a very powerful medicine. In this story by Hans Christian Andersen, some peas are shot through a pea shooter and one of them takes root in a crevice under a window. The plant gives hope ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The philosopher's stone was said to be a jewel that held all the good, true, and beautiful things in the world together. A wise man wanted nothing more than to find the jewel in the hopes that it m ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR ONLINE STORY: To dance in red shoes might be fun to some, but what if the red shoes wouldn't let you stop dancing? That is what happened to Karen when she allowed a pair of red shoes to consume her thoughts an ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The flower felt a stir and couldn't help but stretch out into the world, but the world was not ready for the flower. There was still snow on the ground and bad weather to come. This story by Hans ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: They were from different worlds, even though they lived in the same building. Emily was the daughter of a rich General and George was a porter's son. George had a talent for drawing buildings tha ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR ONLINE STORY: Would a pea under your mattress keep you awake? If you answered yes, then you are a real princess. This story by Hans Christian Andersen is a fun tale about a prince who wants a real princess an ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORIES: A wicked prince wanted to conquer the world. He gained lots of wealth and land and won many wars. The prince heard from the priests that God was greater than him. So the prince decided to make wa ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: The stamp on a coin is a guarantee that it is worth what it says. This story by Hans Christian Andersen is about a shilling that ended up in a foreign land where they didn't trust the stamp on it. ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Hans Christian Andersen has created some beautiful personification. In this story, he tells of a boastful shirt-collar who is looking for a wife and keeps getting himself into trouble with all his ... More »

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CURRICULUM FOR SHORT STORY: Over time a rose-tree and a snail make small conversations. You find the snail telling the rose-tree it just does the same thing over and over and that it's useless. You also later see that the sna ... More »

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