i need to write a story for my class. it has to be 20 pages for children and it has to have a moral?

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any ideas?

Answer 1

Well, perhaps a good way to get this organized and moving is to first decide on what moral you want to discuss. Below I have listed the definition of morals and also several short stories by a man named Aesop with the morals at the end.

Morals have a greater social element to values and tend to have a very broad acceptance. Morals are far more about good and bad than other values. We thus judge others more strongly on morals than values. A person can be described as immoral, yet there is no word for them not following values.

Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character: moral scrutiny; a moral quandary.
Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior: a moral lesson.
Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous: a moral life.
Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong: a moral obligation.
Having psychological rather than physical or tangible effects: a moral victory; moral support.
Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence: a moral certainty.

n.
The lesson or principle contained in or taught by a fable, a story, or an event.
A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim.
morals Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexual conduct, with reference to standards of right and wrong: a person of loose morals; a decline in the public morals.

Aesop's Fables
The Wolf and the Lamb

WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."

Aesop's Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Aesop's Fables
The Wolf and the Crane

A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf."

Aesop's Moral: In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Aesop's Fables
The Man and the Lion

A MAN and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented "a Lion strangled by a Man." The traveler pointed to it and said: "See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts." The Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion."

Aesop's Moral: One story is good, till another is told.

Aesop's Fables
The Crow and the Pitcher

A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.

Aesop's Moral: Necessity is the mother of invention.

When you find a moral you want to discuss, think of the characters to portray this and a setting in which to have them act. Then write about the setting and the circumstance to end up with the proper moral. Good luck.

Answer 2

Try starting with the moral that you want to use. You can always look at Aesop's fables for ideas for morals. Then chose the setting and characters that you want to use. Take a look at some children's books to get an idea of the sentence structure and vocabulary that you should be using. You probably should keep in mind that today's kids are bombarded with images of sex and violence. Despite that, the fairy tales, myths, and legends that have been around forever are still popular reading, even if the settings are modernized. The most important thing that I can tell you is to have fun. If you enjoy what you write, others will too.

Answer 3

Morality refers to the theoretical relation between the human individual and the real world. In other words respect for Nature, the real, is moral--its opposite isn't.

So a good story for children would be one where a young person has to think for himself when everybody says something some wild animal is guilty of destruction, only they haven't really studied that particular sort of animal enough to know about it, and your young hero does study it, follow it, learn about it from a wise old hunte, etc.

This means you need to pick an animal and have your young hero prove the animal shouldn't be killed, because it didn't do the bad act of which it was accused. I'd set it in the Old West, out in the country somewhere, etc.

Answer 4

Do like one of those things...dang I forgot what they are called but they're about why things in nature happen. Like:

Bad Example: The moon and sun got in a fight and now the moon's chasing the sun. Yeah I know Bad but hey beggars can't be choosers.

those usually have morals in it....like um....don't fight?

Good Luck!

Answer 5

How about a story about how even though people are different that they all can contribute something.
maybe use animals like how they all help on a farm in one way and how maybe one thinks its better than the rest.

Answer 6

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