Bokuden and the Bully
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Bokuden was a great swordsman who liked to travel. One day, while riding a ferry, a bully started bothering the other passengers. He took the best spot on the boat and waved his sword around. Bokuden was not impressed. The bully challenged him to a fight. Bokuden agreed but said he would not need to use his sword to win. Can Bokuden live up to his amazing claim? - Amazon.com Ages 7 & Up
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2009
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48
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First Avenue Editions
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Minneapolis, MN
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978-1580138475
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Please login to review this resourceVersatile folk tale with a variety of elementary-age applications
Bokuden and the Bully is an engaging folk tale that will appeal to the elementary-aged student’s keen sense of fairness and social justice. The tale is filled with action and clever dialogue and also contains elements of a trickster tale. Students will delight in knowing the secret that Bokuden is keeping from the bully. Both students and teachers will find it compelling that Bokuden is a real person who lived in 15th and 16th Century Japan. An afterward in Bokuden and the Bully provides this information in a manner that can easily be consumed by elementary students.
Themes in this book include Japan, justice, non-violence, social hierarchy and bullying, making an extremely versatile tale with a variety of cross curricular applications. It could just as easily be used in a folktale study as it could in an anti-bullying unit.
