Cinderella Lesson Plan
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Storytelling is a universal language shared by countries all over the world. Across the ages, fairytales have served to pass along important traditions, customs and lessons from parent to child, generation to generation. Today they continue to delight children while providing an important window into the cultures that make up our world. Perhaps the most popular fairytale of all time is Cinderella. It has delighted generations of children including American kids who conjure up visions of palaces, fairy godmothers, pumpkin coaches, royal families and glass slippers. For most children, it doesn't cross their minds that not everyone dresses the same way, eat sthe same foods and celebrate the same holidays they do. It's exactly for this reason that fairytales provide a fun and important way to introduce children to world cultures -both their differences and similarities.
What would Cinderella see looking out her window?
To kick-off our Fairytale Unit we are asking the big question "What would Cinderella see if she were looking out her window?" The answer depends on which country she is living in. If she were in Egypt she might see a hippopotamus basking on the Nile River; in India a group of women balancing heavy pots on their heads on the way to the fields to milk the cows; or in Laos a big Buddhist statue at the base of a large mountain.
We will start our studies with the reading of a traditional European Cinderalla story, by Charles Perrault. From there we will segue to Cinderella stories that represent a diversity of cultures and customs.
Lesson Plan
Student pages
This lesson has been adapted from an original lesson written by National Board Certified School Librarian Anne-Marie Gorden at Livonia Primary School in Livonia, NY.
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Our second graders will be using Cinderella picture books to access classical and contemporary texts from many cultures and literacy periods. In the process, they will expand their knowledge of the world and explore how literature enriches our lives. This unit is designed to meet learning standards in Social Studies, English Language Arts, Information Literacy, and Technology.
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