A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, what the mother has done is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again. Why? She wants it to remember how it can get up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying great people, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something unusual about these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do."
What position is giraffe in after being born?
What is its first lesson?
What does it have to do after being kicked?
What does the mother do after the baby stands up for the first time?
What's the purpose of that?
Why is this so important?
Who used this survival technique in his works?
Which famous people did he write about?
What did he have to say about them?
Did having this happen to them make them want to give up on life?
on its back
 on its back
Being kicked by it's mother.
kicks her baby,
get up
 get up
Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again
Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again
She wants it to remember how it can get up.
She wants it to remember how it can get up.
In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group
In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group
Irving Stone
Irving Stone 
Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin
Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin
They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
No
ut every time they stand up again