DD needs a gedolim story about derech eretz for school

mommy#1

Sun, Oct 13 2013, 9:27 pm

I don't know if this is the type of stories you want. I taught a bunch of gedolim stories last year as part of a unit on chessed. I just copied & pasted these from an article on chinuch.org (2nd story is showing how rav yosef dov soloveitchik had derech eretz even for little kids?) I just copied the 1st 2 that made sense, but heres the link to the whole article, im sure youll find something there
http://chinuch.org/item_details.php?mid=5709

Rabbi Yitzchak Elchonon
Spector was the Rabbi in
the city of Kovna and
because of this he was
called the Kovna Rav.
One time Rav Yitzchak Elchonon was helping two
men who had an argument. At the same time Rav
Yitzchak Elchonon was waiting to hear if his favorite
talmid Yaacov would have to go to the
army. He hoped he would not because in the army they
do not let you learn Torah or keep mitzvos. Suddenly,
while Rav Yitzchak Elchonon was helping the two
men with the argument, a boy opened the door and
said, “Rabbi, we just found out that Yaacov does not
have to go in the army! Such good news. Thank you
for telling me.” A few minutes later another boy
opened t he door and said “Rabbi. Yaacov does not
have to go to the army.” Rav Yitzchak Elchonon did
not want to tell him that he already knew because he
wanted the boy to be happy so he said, “Boruch
Hashem! What good news! Thank you for telling me.”
A few minutes later it happened again and the again.
Each time Rav Yitzchak Elchonon interrupted himself
to show how happy he was even though he already
heard the news. Each one of the boys had rushed to be
the one to make him happy so he did not want make
any of them sad. That is why Rav Yitzchak Elchonon
was known as a man who was a great gadol who
would never make anyone feel sad

Rabbi Yosef Dov
Soloveitchik was known
as “The Rav” (the rabbi)
to many Jews because he
was the teacher of so
many rabbis in America.
Rabbi Soloveitchik lived
in Boston where he was
the rabbi of a large shul in New York and where he
was the Rosh Yeshiva (Leader) of a big yeshiva.
Even though the Rav spent most of his days teaching
yeshiva students who were adults, the Rav always had
enough time to learn Chumash with little children. He
loved it when little children would teach him about the
parsha.
One Friday, when he was talking at a yeshiva in
Boston, he saw a little child crying in the hall. He
asked the child what was wrong and the child said that
it was Friday and he had not yet learned about the
parsha. The Rav immediately took the child into his
office and taught him the whole parsha so the child
could tell his parents all about the Parsha when he got
home.
The Rav used to say that it was very important for
children to learn parsha