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A Friend on the Train

Sidney Byrd
Transcript

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. Why would Sid have not seen a black person until this point?
  2. Where did Sid go to boarding school?
  3. How far away was the boarding school from home?
  4. What would it be like to become friends with someone you can’t understand?
  5. How did the black man know he would need to act out what he was trying to say to Sid?
  6. How were they able to communicate?

Learn FROM
(deep sharing, transformation)

  1. What are times you remember seeing or meeting someone completely different from you?
  2. What is a time that you have been far from home? What was the experience of leaving and then being away like?
  3. Have you ever become friends with someone very different from you? What was the experience like?
  4. Have you ever been helped by a person similar to the black man in Sid’s story? Have you ever been the person to help? What was it like?