The Gate That Remembered Yesterday: discussion sheet

Part One: The First Courtesy · about 5 minutes to read aloud · Theme: fairness

A village builds a gatekeeper machine and teaches it who belongs from a hundred years of old photographs. A fable about fairness, and a bell anyone can ring.

Choose a question to talk over, or try the activity with words and pictures.

Start here

Why does the Gate turn Ash away when anyone can see she has a hammer?

Go further

The villagers give the Gate a much smaller job. Is there a decision you think a machine should never make on its own?

Make something

Design a sign for the Gate on the morning its float sticks. Show what it thinks is wrong and how Ash can get a person to check.

Read The Gate That Remembered Yesterday online: youngmachines.org/read/fables/the-gate-that-remembered-yesterday/