Guji Guji read by Robert Guillaume

Guji Guji is written and illustrated by Chih-Yuan Chen and read by Robert Guillaume. Guji Guji is quite content with his life as a duckling, despite the fact that he doesn't look anything like his brothers. Then one fateful day, he meets up with three nasty, grinning creatures...

Transcript

Hello, I'm Robert GEO and welcome to Storyline online, brought to you by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. Today we're going to be reading a story by T1 Chin called Gucci. Gucci. An egg was rolling on the ground. It rolled through the trees. It rolled across the meadow. It roll all the way down the heel. Finally, the road into a duck's ness. Mother didn't notice. She was reading. Some of the eggs, began to crack. That first duckling to hatch two spots. Mother called him crayon. The second duckling had brown stripes, zebra, mother, duck. This site, there's third duckling was yellow. And mother duck named him moonlight. A rather odd looking ducklings hatch from the fourth, the Golgi, Golgi said, and that became his name. Mother duck taught her for ducklings how to swim, how to die, and how to more agile. The Golgi always learned more quickly than the others. It was bigger and stronger too. But no matter how quick they were or what they look like, mother loved all her ducklings. The same. Then one terrible day, three crocodiles team. How do they looked a lot like boutique Golgi. The crocodiles were smiling. And when they laughed with them mouths wide open. World could see that big pointed teeth. Three crocodile have so boogie-woogie and smiled some more. Love. Get that rate. Dikaiopolis, crocodile is walking like a good You're good. You heard him. I'm not walking like I am a key. Explain. The crocodiles. Laugh. Look at yourself. No feathers, know, beak, no big webbed feet. What you have is blue-gray skin, sharp claws, pointed teeth and the smell. Bad. Day. He says Lagos. The first crocodiles said, your blue gray body let you hide under water without being seen so you can get close to fat. Delicious. The second Craig said, B, sharp claws help your fat delicious ducks tightly so they don't get away. Third, crocodiles said pointed deep, unnecessary. You can give fat, delicious docs. Three crocodile. We know you live with the ducks. Take them to the rich tomorrow. Practice. Diving, will wait underneath with our mouths wide open. Why would I do that? Gigi asked, why should I listen to you? Because I also feature a bad crowd. And again and then into the grass roots ego gene felt terrible, is set by the lake to think, Is it true? Am I a bad crocodile to look down and the lake and made of fears. Phase boogie-woogie last. I am not a bad market. Of course, I'm not exactly three, brag about nasty and they want to eat my family. I was thinking of a way to stop them. Good, You good, You saw it and so on until finally, it's a good idea. He went home, happy that night. Three bad Cracker, Barrel, sharp, pointed teeth all the way. I'm thinking of fat. They were ready for their next day. Golgi golgi did is he had been told he took the flock of ducts to the bridge, practice diving. Three bad graduate as we're waiting for the dogs under needs that breach. It wasn't fat, delicious. Ducks that travel from the bridge was three ranks. The crocodile's teeth. The three bag drag allows, ran as fast as they could in barely a minute. You know where to bes. Good. Uji head saying, the tax. Boogie-woogie was the duck hero of the day. That night all the ducks and celebrated. Uzi grew to continue to live with mother, crayons, zebra, and movie night. And every day he became much stronger and happier. Crack grow duck. (As provided by SchoolTube video transcript.)

Standards Alignment

Suggested Grade Level: K-1

The standards listed below are for the K and 1st grades but can easily be modified for other grades.

CCSS.SL.K .1, CCSS.SL.1.1, CCSS.SL.K.2, CCSS.SL.1.2, CCSS.RL.K.1, CCSS.RL.1.1, CCSS.RL.K.1, CCSS.RL.K.3, CCSS.RL.1.1, CCSS.RL.1.3, CCSS.RL.K.1, CCSS.W.K.5, CCSS.RL.1.1, CCSS.W.1.5, CCSS.W.K.1, CCSS.W.K.5, CCSS.W.1.1, CCSS.W.1.5

View the activity guide here: Gujiguji

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