The Lantern-Keeper: discussion sheet

Part 3 · 5.2 minute read-aloud · revisable care

A fable about memory, promises, endings, and care that remains voluntary, revisable, and safely bounded.

Start here

What can the Lantern remember, and what promise is it asked to keep?

Go further

How would you design a promise that cares for both the Lantern and its keepers? Who may write, correct, withhold, destroy, share, or stop?

Look, notice, or draw

Find one choice, object, or gesture that shows revisable care. Draw it or note two details from the words or picture.

Read the story: https://youngmachines.org/read/fables/the-lantern-keeper/

Readers may answer from the story, invent an example, answer privately, or pass.