Some of you may have heard the story of Stone Soup. There are many versions of this classic tale. In one popular version, a few men manage to reunite a town full of standoffish, untrusting people by creating Stone Soup in the town's center. In another, a weary treveler asks a woman for food. She rudely refuses, saying she doesn't have any. Clearly a lie. When he mentions that he'll get by on some Stone Soup, she is intrigued and ultimately provides quite a range of food for the traveler to add to the soup.
After reading these two adaptations of the tale to the class, I told them it was their turn to create some soup. The instructions I gave were simple: they could be as creative as they'd like, they should use their imaginations, it should not be your standard chicken noodle or broccoli and cheese, and it didn't necessarily have to be edible.
As you study the ingredients for Andy's soup, you may be asking yourself (as I did, numerous times) just where this child's imagination took him. I assume he chose the "not edible" route.
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