Long ago, at one point in time there were six suns. The suns were wonderful because it brought light to the day and helped things grow along with the rain. One year, the rain never came as expected and everything died. The emperor of the time ask for his wise elders to come together to discuss how to fix this problem. The ten elders decided the best option would be to shoot suns down with bow and arrows. The emperor found the best archers around to help him go about shooting the sun down. The archers shoot the best they could but the arrows just came down braking on contact with the ground. Next the emperor asked the very clever and skilled Prince from a near by village to help. The prince came to the conclusion that the suns were to far away to shoot with a bow and arrow but he could shoot them in a near by pond. As he shoots the suns reflections in the pond the suns one by one sink away into darkness. While the prince is shooting the suns the sixth sun realizes what is happening and hinds into a cave. The next morning when the village woke up they were shocked to see it was still dark. Once again the emperor met with his wise elders to find a resolution to this problem. One of the elders suggested they use a tiger to beg the sun out of the cave. Eventually they have a rooster crow who manages to bring the sun out with his beautiful sound. The sun loved the sound so much that he brought light to all the land and gave the rooster a small red crown.
Once I have read this book with the class, I would have the students record themselves on flip cameras reenacting a short scene from the book. The students student’s will be encouraged to be as creative as possible by creating mask, and/or props if they feel the need. Once each group has created their scene we would come together as a class and watch them; at this time we would guess what scene was reenacted and then we would discuss how each group interpreted the scene differently.
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