A Kid’s Video Guide to “The Whipping Boy”
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Topics discussed in this program include:
- Modern injustices
- Rich vs. poor
- The importance of reading
- Modern heroes
- Equality
- And much more!
- 21 minutes
- "School Library Journal" Video Pick of the Week
- "Curriculum Connections" Pick
Questions for classroom discussion and assignments:
- To be a whipping boy would be an awful job; on the other hand, if the whipping boy had lived his life on the streets it would have been awful as well. Which is worse – or better?
- What are some of the differences between being rich and being poor – in the time of the whipping boy as well as now?
- Who are some modern heroes? What makes them heroes?