Venture Magazine, May 5, 1991

Abstract

This is an 8-page weekly magazine for children in Catholic religious education. Pages 6-7 are given to "Gospel Activity." Six cartoon panels are filled with black-and-white line drawings. Pupils are urged to draw in the last two empty panels. The story is presented as "The Porcupine and the Moles" telling one of Aesop's fables. Porcupine asks the moles if he could share their cave for the winter, and the welcome him. After a week, the moles are suffering from the porcupine's needles. They decide to talk with the porcupine and ask him to leave. "Oh, no! This place suits me well." Pupils are asked to talk through with each other how the porcupine and moles can solve their problem. Five questions help. They are to write or draw their group's solution into the two empty panels. I would say that this is a good challenge. Mom wrote on a post-it note "I wish you could have heard the solutions my students gave to this problem."