Synopsis

A monkey swings into the middle of a spelling test, and a village school learns calm thinking beats chasing and shouting.

Table of Contents

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  1.
  An Unexpected Visitor
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  In the middle of a spelling test, a monkey swung in through the open window, snatched a pencil box, and leaped straight onto the teacher's desk.The whole class burst into…

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  Chasing Does Not Work
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  A few boys jumped up to chase it, waving rulers, which only frightened the monkey further up onto the ceiling fan, clutching the pencil box tightly."Stop," said their teacher, Miss…

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  A Gentle Trick
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  Instead, Miss Rukhsana asked everyone to sit quietly and placed a banana on the windowsill. Slowly, the monkey crept down, grabbed the banana, and climbed back out the window the…