Gingerbread Ethics

My favorite unit of the year---Gingerbread! We read the books about the boy, girl, friends, the Runaway Tortilla and the Cajun Cornbread Man. I start to view my food differently-watching to see if it will up and run away after a few weeks of these stories!

So I started with the basic good 'ole Gingerbread Man classic story. I asked the kids to write whether it was right or wrong that the cookie ran away from everyone. I LOVE that they came up with so many different kinds of reasoning for their answers:

Blurry pic I know but I love her answer-it was right because he can be free.