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Learning Objectives

• To know that when you give out positive feelings,
  they are very often reciprocated.
• To know that we belong to various groups and
  communities, such as family and school.
• To know that family and friends should care for
  each other.

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The Two Brothers
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• This story has been adapted from an Egyptian
  Legend

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• Once there were two brothers. When their father
  died, they inherited his farm.

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• The soil was poor and the land was dry, except
  when the Nile flooded.

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• Life was hard, growing wheat and making it into
  flour.

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But the brothers continued to share everything,
just as they had always done.
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• One day, after the brothers had finished
  bringing in the harvest, the younger brother said
  to himself
• Although we have divided the flour equally, it
  is not really fair. My brother has a wife and
  children to feed, while I live alone. He should
  have more than me.

But he knew that his brother would not accept
more than his half share.
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• So he thought
• of a plan.

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• That night he went into the barn where his share
  of the harvest was stored. He counted out six
  sacks of flour.

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• Checking that no one was watching, he
• carried the sacks into his brothers barn.

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I am very lucky. I have a wonderful life, and a
beautiful wife and children with whom I can share
my good fortune. My brother has no family. At
the end of the days work, he goes home to an
empty house. I will give him some of my flour to
compensate for his loneliness.

Much later that night, the older brother awoke,
after a dream. He started thinking
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• As dawn was breaking he took six sacks of flour
  from his store, and added them to the stash in
  his brothers store.

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• He will never know where these came from he
  thought.

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• Come the morning, both brothers were perplexed
  to find exactly the same number of sacks as there
  had been before they had given the six away.

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• But neither brother said anything, because they
  didnt want the other to learn of their generous
  gesture.

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• The following night each brother took a similar
  gift of flour to the other.
• Yet in the morning they found the original
  number of sacks in their barns.

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• On the third night, as they traversed the rough
  terrain between their houses, each man saw a
  figure in the distance under the light of the
  moon.
• They wondered who it could be.

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• As the brothers closed the distance between
  them, they recognised each other, and then it
  dawned on them what had happened.

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• Without a word, they fell into each others arms
  and embraced!

They had proven to each other the strength of
their love.
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• And the moral of
• this tale?
• Whatever you give
• shall come back
• to you!

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Teefas Teasers

• Why do you think the two brothers cared for each
  other so much?
• Why did the brothers give without telling each
  other?
• Do you have any examples of times when you have
  given, and it has come back to you?

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Glossary

• reciprocated returned, shared
• compensate give back, pay off.
• gesture a sign or signal.
• jealousy envy