October 1, 2015 - Thursday

Class Work

1. You will be given a slip containing part of one of the articles we read. The passages are numbered.

• Read the lines.
• Be ready to discuss/agree/or disagree with the statement.
• You will also be given a notes sheet. Take notes as you walk around the room and discuss the statements with your classmates.
• Ready - BEGIN walking/talking/note taking.
• A full class discussion will follow.

2. Cinderella is a story that occurs around the world.

Let's look at "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" as an example.
Trailer: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-yff25&p=mufaro%27s%20beautiful%20daughters&type=
Music please: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-yff25&p=mufaro%27s%20beautiful%20daughters&type=

Now settle back and listen . . .

• Join a group of no more than 5.
  2. Select a Cinderella story and culture.3. Explore the possibilities!
  http://nancykeane.com/rl/322.htm - Write your choice and group names on the board. No duplicates!
• Another source: http://therealcinderella.wikispaces.com/The+Mexican+Cinderella (Check the other options on the side.)
• Of course, a simple search for a specific country should bring up options! Don't be afraid to look!
  5. Prepare to share the story with the class.
  6. Use PowerPoint. Tell the story as the slides progress. Add facial expression and vocal inflection as the pages "turn!" Make sure that the pictures you select reflect the culture and location of the story. You wouldn't put palm trees in a story about Cinderella in the frozen north!
•  Please use PowerPoint for this or be sure you add pictures to Prezi or other presentation software. This is a story book!
   7. All must participate.
   
  Let the fun begin!

 

Homework - Post in CANVAS by Tuesday. (Individual work)

Conduct research. Find out more about the country or origin and the time period of the Cinderella your group selected.

1. What is the setting? What is the climate?

2. What are some customs?

3. How did they dress?

4. Were there any challenges of the day? Wars? Plagues?

5. Why would "Cinderella" be an important story for that place?

6. In what ways does the cultural Cinderella differ from girls/women in our place and time?

 

30 pts.

 

 

Groups will present on Thursday. You will have part of the class time on Tuesday to polish the project. Post the project in CANVAS by Tuesday. Be sure to have ALL names of group members on the title slide along with the country and story title.

 

Check Aaron Shepherd's Readers' Theatre for some Cinderella stories . . .

http://www.aaronshep.com/cgi-bin/search_rt.pl?terms=cinderella&boolean=AND&case=Insensitive

 

 

September 29, 2015 - Tuesday

Class Work

1. We will finish the COLOR presentations. Continue with your notes. 

This WAS the homework:

• If you have not already watched a Cinderella movie, please do so by Tuesday. If you cannot find access to a Cinderella movie, Any princess will do.
• Watch for the characteristics of the princess and of the prince. If you watched the movie as a child, do you feel differently about the princess and the prince now that you are an adult? How do you feel about the use of Prince Charming and a Princess in movies for children? Explain in paragraph form. Post your response in CANVAS. 25 pts. Due Tuesday. 
• Read http://sutterfield.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686139/kolbenschlag_article.pdf. Be ready to discuss in class on Tuesday along with a discussion of the other "Cinderella" articles. Do you agree of disagree with the statements in the articles?

2.  We are going to "play" Tea Party.

• You will receive a slip of paper containing a short segment from the reading.
• Read your segment. Get ready to explain the segment and to share your opinion. Do you agree or disagree with the slip? Explain.
• Move around the room. Share with others.
• There are 20 different segments. It will take 10-12 minutes for you to gather all thoughts.

3. We will begin here on Thursday. Please be sure you have read the Cinderella articles. 

Cinderella Articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/magazine/24princess.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

http://sutterfield.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686139/kolbenschlag_article.pdf (Links to an external site.).

In CANVAS, post your overall impression. Is Cinderella a strong role model for young girls, or does Cinderella leave young girls and boys with the wrong impression about women? Explain in about three paragraphs. (15 points - get started in class. Finish for homework)



4. If time permits, we will play Story Cubes. Get ready for some fun!

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Class Work

1. Take the first five minutes of class to review and make last-minute touch ups to your color presentation. By the end of class, you will know more about colors than Crayola!
2. Take notes Listen for:

1. A terrific introduction.
2. A comparison of the color to other colors. Was it superior or inferior to other colors?
3. The history of the color (Check out a dictionary site.)
4. Information about the color in stories, art works, and nature.
5. Information about who or what "wears" the  color.
6. An explanation as to why the color is or is not important.
7. Information about how the story of Little Red Riding Hood would have been different if she had been wearing the color in the report.

A note sheet will be provided.

Homework:

If you have not already watched a Cinderella movie, please do so by Tuesday. If you cannot find access to a Cinderella movie, Any princess will do.

Watch for the characteristics of the princess and of the prince. If you watched the movie as a child, do you feel differently about the princess and the prince now that you are an adult? How do you feel about the use of Prince Charming and a Princess in movies for children? Explain in paragraph form. Post your response in CANVAS. 25 pts. Due Tuesday.

2. Read http://sutterfield.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686139/kolbenschlag_article.pdf. Be ready to discuss in class on Tuesday along with a discussion of the other "Cinderella" articles. Do you agree of disagree with the statements in the articles?

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Class Work

1. When you sign in today, please note your "color" for the color presentations.
2. We have one more "Three Little Pigs" presentation. . . on with the huffing and puffing and blowing down of houses!
3. Have you viewed a Cinderella movie? If not, please do so by Thursday.
The original Disney movie is fine as are more current versions.
Consider:

• Enchanted
• Ever After
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
• Disney's remake of Cinderella 2015

Be ready to discuss the movie you chose.

Just to get you in the mood for viewing, let's take a look at these:
Who is Cinderella? How faithful was Disney to the original stories you read from the book?
2. What are some common elements?
3. What is different?
4. What are the qualities of the Prince in the story?


 A really short Disney version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggS61GeN-dA

Another version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5yJRIMuMYs

And . . . here we go again! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wppM8ycod0

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Cinderella today...If Cinderella came to our day and time, what would she need to change? What should remain the same?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYU4cqUAUs

What about Prince Charming today? What qualities should remain the same? What would he need to change?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgodxO8L0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgodxO8L0k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywnS8sUYD6Q

What about a Fairy God Mother????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQmQQYWBmo0

What other "magic" does a princess need? How about a little help with the work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAsG__XjU8Q

And then... you need an evil "queen", "step-mother", "dragon"...

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/enchanted-2007/

The magical ball...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfpiATTT7OY

And they lived happily ever after...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtghn3v5zg0


You may use the rest of the class time to work on your color presentation.

So, what is significant about "red?" What if Red had been wearing blue, or yellow, or green, or purple, or black?

You will "adopt a color" to research and to present. (Partners are OK)
Homework #2: Please begin your research this weekend.

You need to:

• Introduce your color - have fun with this! Entertain us!
• Compare it to other colors - is it superior or inferior to other colors?
• Tell the history of your color (Check out a dictionary site.)
• Tell of your color in stories, art works, and nature.
• Tell who or what "wears" your color.
• Explain why your color is or is not important.
• Tell how the story of Little Red Riding Hood would have been different if she had been wearing your color. ("No change" is not an acceptable response!)

Keep track of your sources and include them in your last slide. (Seven slides are required plus the Works Cited page. ) We will present on Thursday, 9/ 24/14. You have at least 2 1/2 minutes but no more than 5.) (100 points)

PowerPoint Tips
1. Use a light background with a DARK font or use a dark background with a LIGHT font.
2. Use bullets - not "deep text".

• No more than six bullets per slide
• No more than six words per bullets.
• You are giving the presentation, not the machine

3. Add visuals - but not too many - just enough to keep it interesting.
4. Make the font size big enough to see - at least 16.
5. Use a footless font such as Ariel, Helvetica, or Veranda.
6. Make the text bold; it shows up better.
7. Once you have at least three slides, get someone to take a look at your work and check
 for 1-6.
8. Make revisions as necessary before you post in CANVAS.

September 17, 2015 - Thursday

Class Work

1. You have the first 15 minutes of class to use to organize and polish your presentation!
2. On with the show! Remember:

• All speak/read
• Use vocal inflection
• If you are acting, use the space
• If you are doing a readers' theatre, use your voice and facial expressions
• Have fun!

Be sure to introduce yourselves and tell which role each will be playing! Also, tell us the title of the book/story.

Audience - be attentive. Write down a description of your favorite part of each show! Use your own paper. If you do not have any, you may type and print at the end of the presentations.

Homework #1:Now, back to Little Red Riding Hood... Read or watch the original Grimm tale.
The original Grimm tale:

Written: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LittRed.shtml

YouTube:
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=little+red+riding+hood&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003

Updated versions . .. view - what do you think?
Trailer: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=little+red+riding+hood&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003

Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2514656025/

Start your research . . .


3. So, what is significant about "red?" What if Red had been wearing blue, or yellow, or green, or purple, or black?

You will "adopt a color" to research and to present. (Partners are OK)
Homework #2: Please begin your research this weekend.

You need to:

• Introduce your color - have fun with this! Entertain us!
• Compare it to other colors - is it superior or inferior to other colors?
• Tell the history of your color (Check out a dictionary site.)
• Tell of your color in stories, art works, and nature.
• Tell who or what "wears" your color.
• Explain why your color is or is not important.
• Tell how the story of Little Red Riding Hood would have been different if she had been wearing your color. ("No change" is not an acceptable response!)

Keep track of your sources and include them in your last slide. (Seven slides are required plus the Works Cited page. ) We will present a week from today on 9/ 23/14. You have at least 2 1/2 minutes but no more than 5.) (100 points)

You will have some time on Tuesday to work on this.

Homework #3
Read "Cinderella" - p. 3 and "Ashenputtel" - p. 68

Explain in paragraph form what is similar between the two stories? What are the differences? Which version do you think would be most liked by girls and boys in 21st Century America? Explain. Use specific lines from the stories in your answers.

September 15, 2015 - Tuesday

Class Work
We will discuss the homework stories from last Thursday on this Thursday. Save your notes.

Let's watch
I. The Three Little Pigs meet Little Red Riding Hood - when stories collide!

• Story time: http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/odenbach/wwwmath/pigs/pig3.html
• Group Activity - the story grows ...
• You will be getting into one of four groups.- no more than five in a group. Sign up on the sheet at the back table.
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Three Little Pigs
• Three Little Javelinas
• Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf
• The True Story of the Big Bad Wolf
• Once you are in your groups, count off.
• Even #s will be responsible for the first half of the story
• Odd #s will be responsible for the last half of the story.
• Read through the story. Figure out how to get EVERYBODY in your sub-group to take part in a reading for the class.
• The ultimate goal is to entertain us with a reading. Use vocal inflection. Music/singing is OK. Beat out a rhythm. Chant. Be creative! Create some sort of sound-effect for each character.
• The show will go on Thursday.

Homework

Conduct research about the color RED. Consult at least two sources. 1. What is important about RED?
2. Does it symbolize anything?
3. Did any important people wear or use RED?
4. Did any artists feature RED in any of their works?
5. What books, songs, stories, movies, plays, or television shows feature RED in the title?
6. How is RED created?
7. What is usually associated with RED? List 10.
8. List your sources. Friends count as sources.
This is worth 25 points. Post in CANVAS.
Do NOT use wikipedia as one of your sources. It is OK to start there, but jump from there to more reliable sources.

Also read http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2004/danceswithwolves.asp. Be ready to discuss on Thursday.

and
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/aug/27/moms-demand-action-gun-sense-america/moms-demand-action-says-little-red-riding-hood-has/

What do you think? Be ready to defend your opinion.

September 10, 2015

Class Work

1. For homework, you studied about wolves in folklore, myth, and legend. What did you learn?

• Talk about it at your table.
• Select one person to act as the speaker for your group.
• Share ONE item of interest each time your group is called upon to share.

2. What do you know about wolves? Take about 4 minutes to scan this article. Add to your knowledge. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolf/

3. Today we will be watching a 2007 Academy Award Winning short animated film - Peter & the Wolf. Note how this wolf relates to what you think you already know about wolves. (Exit Slip)  Is the wolf in Peter and the Wolf anything like the real creature?
  - What is the message in the story?
- What can we, the viewers, learn about human nature from the story?
- What is your "take-away?"
Following a brief discussion, you will be writing.
- What do you think? Would you like the children you know to see the movie or listen to the music? Explain. This is an in-class writing exercise. Please post in Canvas. This is a group discussion, but it is an individual writing exercise. Please use complete sentences and paragraphs. You have up to 15 minutes to complete the work.) (20 pts.)

Homework: Conduct additional research about WOLVES. Check for the life and times and locations of wolves. Let's see if we can figure out where these crazy stories originated!

Read at least two  articles and list the Top 10 things to know about wolves. Give credit to your
sources. MLA Style please. Include the URL. Feel free to use www.easybib.com to create a works cited page.

Read the following stories in Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Be ready to discuss on Tuesday.
1. "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids (Germany) p. 109
2. "Little Red Riding Hood" (Germany) p. 112