Touringrandom image A THOUSAND CRANES
South Carolina Children's Theatre brings a touring show to YOUR school that helps reinforce Social Studies curriculum with the poignant and real-life story of Sadako, a twelve year old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan in 1955. She is a typical optimistic and excitable pre-teen who develops leukemia ten years after being exposed to the radiation from the atomic bomb. She undertakes to fold 1000 origami paper cranes in order to receive her wish to get better, but succumbs to the illness having completed 644. Her classmates and other school children finish folding the cranes and also build a monument to her and all the children affected by the bomb that stands in the Hiroshima Peace Park. To honor her memory still today, school children from around the world send thousands of paper cranes as a continued prayer for Peace in the World. Suitable for Upper Elementary and Middle School
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