...Cinderella Stories Lesson Plan Sherryl Green Grand Canyon University: RDG:585 October 8, 2012 Lesson Plan Cinderella Stories ABSTRACT In this study of Cinderella Stories, second grade students will use charts and diagrams to discover the similarities and differences among stories. Students will develop writing skills using descriptive language and details. They will strengthen their comprehension skills through the use of magical Cinderella tales from different lands and apply map skills in learning which country each story comes from. These magical tales will help students to develop awareness that different Cinderella tales have much in common. Materials Class comparison Chart Graphic Organizers: Venn Diagram Sequencing Chart Compare and Contrast T-Chart My Favorite Part Handout Book Mark Template World Map Map pins Book collection The Rough-Faced Girl by Rafe Martin A Golden Slipper” A Vietnamese Legend by Darrell H.Y. Yum Chinye: A West African Folk Tale by Obi Onyefulu Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Irish Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Way Meat Loves Salt:A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn The Golden Saddle: A Middle Eastern Cinderella by Rebecca Hickox Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe The Irish Cinderlad by Shirley Climo Lesson 1 Key Vocabulary Country — a small part of a continent...
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...The fantasy literature of Cinderella was introduced by many cultures and every culture seems to have its own version. Cinderella stories date back as early as 850 A. D. with the first written version of Chinese tale yeh-shen (Cinderella: A cross-cultural story by Patricia w. Kite) Even though Cinderella is a fantasy story it shows many meaning to the character that portrays Cinderella. In many cultures there are stories of Cinderella where every girl dreams of having a Prince charming. The story of Cinderella is a fairy tale that is told and read to children of very young ages (ALA American Library Association) Research shows that many versions have been found first in Europe and the story tale origins appear to date back to a Chinese story from the ninth century. (ALA American Library Association) The book Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is a story portrayed by a very young girl who mother died giving birth to her. Cinderella lived with her family who thought she was bad luck to them, therefore she was discriminated against and treated very bad. In the Chinese culture many Chinese people prefer sons then daughters. In many cultures children look for the love of their parents. The book emphasizes that quote “how you should do your best in the face of hopelessness; to have faith in the end your spirit will prevail; to transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.” (by Adeline Yeh Man) ...
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...Little Glass Slipper” and “Cinderella- Brothers Grimm” are two stories about a girl who meets a prince at the ball. The main plot of the story is very similar but they do have their twists. Both stories have a girl with evil stepsisters, they both go to an event where they meet the prince, and each story has trouble finding the real Cinderella. But they also have several differences, “The Little Glass Slipper” had a godmother to grant her wishes and “Cinderella-Brother’s Grimm” had a tree on her mom’s grave that granted her wishes. Both “Cinderella- Brothers Grimm” and “The Little Glass Slipper” have many similarities and differences in the setting, characters, and plot. In “The Little Glass Slipper” it says, “It happened that the king's son...
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...Cinderella Story Comparisons The Disney version in some aspects is quite different than Perrault’s version, but in some cases it is also very similar. First major different that is obvious is that in the Disney version it is shown that Cinderella loses her mother at an early age which causes her father to remarry to another woman for her upbringing. In the Perrault version, there is no mother mentioned in the story. It is just told that the father “married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen (Perrault). Another major difference between the two stories beginning of torment for Cinderella. In Disney’s version, the stepmother and the stepsisters begin to show their true nature after the death of Cinderella’s father. The stepmother became cold, cruel, and jealous of the little girl’s charm. However, in Perrault’s version, it is explained that the ugly nature was revealed immediately after Cinderella’s father married his second wife. After the wedding ceremonies were over, “the stepmother began to show herself in her true colors. She could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the less because they made her own daughters appear the more odious. She employed her in the meanest work of the house” (Perrault). The similarity between the two is that both versions involved Cinderella being a house maid while her stepsisters received the opposite treatment. Also, in Perrault’s story, the father does not die. He is very much there but...
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...about the story of Cinderella, the first thing that pops into their head is the animated movie Disney had created. They think about the poor servant girl who was dressed in nothing but rags who cleaned the entire house and was mocked by her cruel step sisters and step mother. As the story continues, Cinderella then receives help from her fairy god mother and ends up at the ball where she meets her prince. The animated Disney version had become a big hit towards younger children because of the moral lessons they receive at the end of the movie. When kids think about Cinderella all they believe and see are the good things that can happen to them. They see the little mice and the happy ending where Cinderella marries the prince and they live happily ever after. This story was originally created by a man called Charles Perrault. Little do they know that there are multiple stories about Cinderella, some even containing violent and aggressive behaviors unsuitable for a child to hear. For example another version of Cinderella was made by Jacob and Wilhelm Grim which told the tale the same exact way as Charles Perrault, the only difference was that the step sister’s eyes were plucked out by birds at the end of the story for treating Cinderella badly in the beginning. Also, before Cinderella was revealed the step sisters were so desperate to be with the prince that they ended up chopping their own toes so they would be able to fit their foot inside the glass shoe. Although the story may be...
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...Over the centuries, many different versions of Cinderella have been written some with children and families in mind while others are geared more towards the adult audience. Four popular versions are by Charles Perrault, the Grimm brothers, the Walt Disney movie from 1950, and the most recent Cinderella Disney film done in 2015. Cinderella has been altered many times thought history in order to keep up with our ever changing culture views. In Cinderella, by Charles Perrault Cinderella’s father married his second wife and it was only after they were married that she showed her true nature. She had a severe dislike for his daughter. The daughter often was found sitting near the chimney, because that was the only place that she could...
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...me a bedtime story about Everland, the giant, the witches, and the princess. I have grown along all this beautiful dream within me, yet, being reminded regularly when I watched movies emphasizing how important love is to the existence of human beings. The worse thing is, I do not let this stay as childhood thinking. I grow older but I myself try to consume even more movies and literatures about the same old concept of happiness without realizing that these were poison for me to live in reality. To most of the young girl all over the world as well, I assumed, do not care about how time and way of life has changed so much since the first fairytale was written since the same story is told over and over. The new plots and characters may changed but the concept stays the same. The most well known fairy tale for young girls of all time is, of course, the Walt Disney princesses. Disney is one of the largest media companies which was established by Walt Disney back in 1923. The basic elements of Walt Disney are victory of the good over the evil and to finally find true love equals happily ever after. Despite how long time has passed, one of the originals that was created, which is Cinderella, is still being consume moreover influencing children of the 21st century. Therefore in this reaction paper I would like to look through Disney world in order to see how the identity of female is perceive by all the children in the real world and I would like to choose Cinderella as the case study...
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...Cinderella Man is an enrapturing story containing typical implications. Its up to people in general to separate the story to see what is truly happening. The story starts with James J. Braddock who is a brutal, Irish American boxer from New Jersey, once in the previous a light heavyweight contender, who is constrained to surrender encasing in the wake of breaking his hand the ring. This is both an assistance and a sensation to his wife, Mae: she can't drive herself to watch the viciousness of his picked calling, yet knows they will have no extraordinary compensation without him boxing. As the United States enters the Great Depression, Braddock does physical work as a longshoreman to support his pack, even after seriously breaking his hand....
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...Standard 5.Rl.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the texts. ELA Compare and contrast two or more characters, setting, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g. How characters interact). Content Objective(s) Students will be able to determine the theme, characters, events, and be able to respond to challenge in a fairy tale. Students will be able to compare and contrast the elements of a fairy tale in detail. Language Objective(s) Students will be able to verbally and write the theme of the fairy tale. Also be able to challenge the viewpoints of...
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...Many people know of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes of their childhoods. Though when people think of these tales and rhymes, they don’t think about plagues, wars, sieges, or of walking on glass. But by shedding light on the hidden facts and meanings of these stories, people can be better educated of the stories and rhymes they thought they knew. An example to start with is Cinderella she had to pick beans and lentils out of the ashes to get her meals. With Miss Mary Mack it’s believed it was an African-American spiritual for children and in The Little Mermaid every step she takes it feels like walking on glass. So now people will know the true meanings and stories they thought they knew, and will never tell their kids again. First off is Cinderella and Snow White, these stories were both written by the Brothers Grimm and later published by...
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...Name: Professor: Course: Date: Cinderella Human culture is filled with fairy tales. These fairies start out as simple but entertaining stories but as they get handed down from one generation to the next, they gradually become more than simply fairy tales. They grow and become bedtime stories for growing children as such play an important role in the children’s perception of the world and society in which they live in. One such popular fairy tale is (Cinderella, Cary & Anita, 52). It demonstrates that modern day fairy tales play a role in our society as subtle instructions for behaviors and morals that Children are supposed to follow. On the surface, it may come across as a very simple story on a young woman whose wishes eventually come true. However, the fairy tale also reflects cultural expectations of the behaviors and goals of women. It also defines the expectations of a woman’s goodness. Cinderella shows its audience that women are expected to be passive. For example, the main character patiently suffers under all kinds of mistreatments by her stepsisters and stepmother without voicing any complaint. She is always busy with cleaning, sweeping, washing as well as dusting but does nothing else to respond to the abuse that she is being subjected to other than sing about her dreams of happiness that she wished would come to pass. She is relegated to merely wishing for things to change as opposed to taking action for herself and driving the change that she wishes (Orenstein...
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...interpretations, a fairy tale can be defined as a story that has fictitious and folklore characters which displays the message for every action there is a reaction whether it be positive or negative. These fictitious characters influence children and help them to understand the messages so that children can be socially accepted (Hohr). The origins of fairy tales can not be narrowed to a specific time line but they were once old wives tales which were passed on from generation to generation which writers have modified to become or claimed as their own. Although fairy tales are useful to teach children morals fairy tales are inappropriate for children because of the psychological effects, presentation of the content and morals. This has given reasons for the modifications of fairy tales although these modifications are believed to be better both traditional and modern fairy tales are in somewhat way unsuitable for children. The early versions of fairy tales are not filled with the sanctified, altruistic images seen today but are filled with gory and sadistic images. In an attempt to understand these reasons for modifications of fairy tales we must understand the journey which the traditional writers took. Thomas O'Neil senior writer at the National Geographic and Maria Tartar the chair for program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University both go into details about the Grimm brothers lives and journey to becoming story tellers. The original writer's of the most popularized...
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...Our group decided to choose the 2015 version of Cinderella as our cultural artifact. It took a lot of discussion but we ended up coming to an agreement. We decided to connect it with Sonnet 55. Each of these will be discussed in more details as well as how this poem connects to today’s world. We liked this movie because the story of Cinderella is such an old story has been retold countless times. It has survived for hundreds of years and is very popular still today. We liked the new take that this version added. We were originally going to talk about morality and how this movie taught it, but we decided to change it because we liked the idea of immorality better. We thought that this would better connect to the audience and the sonnet. We chose Sonnet 55 mainly because we felt it connected really well with immorality. We thought that the line “Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn. The living record of your memory.” fit well because just like this sonnet lives on, so does the story of Cinderella. Nothing can destroy this sonnet just like nothing can destroy the story of Cinderella....
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...Universal Stories Teamwork The Bundle of Sticks An Aesop Fable The Greek folk hero, Aesop, illustrates the concept of teamwork in this short but affective fable. The story centers on a father demonstrating to his sons, the importance of working together. Illustrating this concept, especially to these feuding siblings, wasn’t a simple task but was made easier by using a common item that each son was familiar with. The father challenged his sons by giving each a bundle of wood. The sons were then asked to break the bundle in half. As hard as each boy tried, they could not split the bundle of wood. The father then untied the bundle and gave each of them one stick to break. Each son was able to break his piece of wood without any difficulty. This simple test, showed how working together, this band of brothers could reach goals far beyond the ones they could reach as individuals. Compassion The Lion and the Mouse An Aesop’s Fable Compassion has always been a virtue most of us like to think we practice. But there are those who choose not to share compassion with others no matter how much they need it. After a small mouse disturbs a sleeping lion, the mouse is threatened with certain death. As a consequence of convincing the lion that he, a tiny mouse, could someday save his life, the lion set the mouse free. By releasing the lion from a net a few days later, the mouse proved the he could, after all, save the lion’s life. The compassion the lion had for the mouse proves that...
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...include, “Comparing Cultures”, and “Rain”. Every teacher should believe that every child, no matter what their background maybe, can learn. Multicultural education is an “Educational strategy that incorporates the teaching of students from diverse backgrounds, human relations, and the study of ethnic and other cultural groups in a school environment and that supports diversity and equity” (James A. Johnson, Diann Musial, Gene E. Hall, Donna M. Gollnick, Victor L. Dupuis, 2005). One of my stategies that I found intersting is the Comparing Cultures activity. Mycheal Willon (1994) discusses in the Comapring cultures, the teacher should have the class read or watch the movie Cinderella in the class room. Then, brings another version of Cinderella which is the Shirley Clome’s, the Egyption version. To read the story in a book or have them watch the movie are both appropiate. Mycael Willon (1994) also discusses that after reviewing both versions, the teacher uses “cooperative learning strategy Think-Pair-Share (TPS)” (para, 5). In the strategy, the teacher would ask the children to find a partner and hold up his or her hand. After wards the teacher...
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