Tunjur! Tunjur!
Tunjur!
Retold By: Margaret
Read MacDonald
Ilustrasted by: Alik
Arzoumanian
Genre: Palestinian
Folktale
Grades Prek-2
Have you ever taken something that is not yours? Did you
suffer any consequences for taking that item? While reading Tunjur! Tunjur!
Tunjur! You will learn what happens when you take something that is not
yours!
The story Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! is about a little
pot who ventures off into the village. He comes across a man who works at a
market. The man likes the pot and decides to bring him home and keep honey in
it. The pot doesn’t stay with the man; he leaves with his pot full of honey and
brings it back to his mom. The second day, the pot once again heads into the
village where he meets the King. The King takes him home to the Queen. The
Queen places her jewels inside of the pot. Once again the pot leaves and brings
all the jewels home to his mom. He is soon caught for stealing all of these
items and is punished by the King. Instead of placing something nice into the
pot, he fills it up with muck and sends him on his way. The pot agrees that he
will never take anything again that isn’t his.
This story would be appropriate for the classroom because it
teaches students that they shouldn’t take something that isn’t there’s. This
story could then be used to write a story of a time when the students might
have gotten in trouble for something that they did. Then they could write about
the repercussions of their actions. It also brings multicultural into the
classroom. The story is a Palestinian Folktale, the pictures show what life
might be like in Palestine.
ELA Framework
16.1 Identify
familiar forms of traditional literature (Mother Goose rhymes, fairy tales,
lullabies) read aloud.
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