Children’s Stories from Different Cultures

1. Children’s Stories from Different Cultures By Michelle Oreskovic & Connie Rasmussen

2. Literacy Lesson Activity • Location • Olger Brenner • Mrs. Hodkiewiz • 3rd grade • 17 students • Introduction to books and activities took two days to complete

3. Fairy Tales A magical children’s story involving fantastic forces and beings, fairies, wizards, fairy godmothers, wicked witches, and magical objects. A made up story usually designed to mislead. Has impossible events that lead to a happy ending.

4. Fantasy An invented story including elements that are impossible such as talking animals, time travel or magical powers. Make believe is what this genre is all about.

5. Literacy Corner Lesson Plan Children’s Age/Grade: 3rd grade Date: May 2, 2011 • Teacher’s Name: Connie Rasmussen & Michelle Oreskovic Name of Lesson: Cinderella Around The World Learning Outcomes: • Students will recall/list (knowledge) the Cinderella stories • Students will describe/discuss (comprehension) the Cinderella stories • Students will choose (application) words to complete the word search activity • Students will compare/contrast/differentiate (analysis) the various Cinderella stories • Students will write (synthesis) any similarities & differences in the various Cinderella stories • Students will locate and write (synthesis) the location of each Cinderella story on a map Content Standards: • RL.4.2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. • RL.4.3. Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions). • RL.4.6. Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. • RL.4.9. Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Materials: • 2 Tri-fold displays with the 10 different synopses of the Cinderella stories • 10 Cinderella Story Books (different cultures such as: American, British, Chinese, Egyptian, German, Irish, Hmong, Korean, Native American, Persian) • World map – to show different locations • 5 world globes – for students to locate each stories country/continent • Activity sheet - crossword puzzle (easy and hard version) • Activity sheet – list similarities and differences in Cinderella stories • Activity sheet – find locations of different Cinderella stories on world map

6. Exploratory Introduction: Introduce Fantasy and Fairy Tale story books such as the Cinderella story. Discuss the tri- fold display with the different versions of Cinderella in the various cultures. Students will complete 3 activities. Procedures: • Ask students if they know fantasy and fairy tale stories such as the Cinderella story. • Show the tri-fold displays to the students, discussing the various story books. • Read the American Cinderella story. Ask students what is the meaning? • Read the other versions of Cinderella. • Show each story’s location on the world map. • Discuss any similarities and differences of the Cinderella stories. • Explain that students will complete the activity sheet by writing in any similarities and/or differences in the stories they heard (Give to students before reading stories). • Explain to the students that they can choose a word search activity sheet to complete (2 versions, easy or hard). • Explain that the students will locate the different Cinderella versions on a globe, and then they will write it onto their world map. Adaptations: Student/s that has any difficulties reading may choose the easier word search to complete or partner up with another student during the different activities. Assessment: • Students will recall the information of the various the Cinderella stories • Students will describe and discuss the similarities and differences in the stories • Students will recall words to complete the word search activity • Students will compare, contrast and differentiate the various Cinderella stories • Students will complete the activity sheet by writing any similarities and/or differences between the various Cinderella stories • Students will complete the world map activity by writing the locations of the various Cinderella stories

7. Cinderella Around the World Brother, G. (1945). Grimm's fairy tales.New York, NY: Grosett and Dunlap, Inc. Climo, S. (1996). The koreancinderella. New York, NY: Harper Collins Books. Climo, S. (1989). The egyptiancinderella. New York, NY: Harper Collins Books. Climo, S. (2001). The persiancinderella. New York, NY: Harper Collins Books. Coburn, J. R. (1996). Jouanah: a hmongcinderella. Walnut Creek, CA: Shen's Book. Haviland, V.(1961). Favorite fairy tales told in ireland. New York, NY:Little Brown Co. Jacobs, J. (1916). More english tales. tattercoats. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Louie, A.-L. (1982). Yeh-shen a cinderella story from china. New York: NY: Puffin Books. Martin, R. (1998). The roughed face girl. New York, NY: Penguin Group. Werner, J. (2002). Cinderella. New York, NY: Random House Children's Book.

8. America Classic story of a beautiful girl, her evil stepmother and stepsisters, and the fairy godmother who helps Cinderella goes from rags to riches. The fairy godmother turned the mice turned into servants for her, and the pumpkin into a carriage. Cinderella had lost her slipper at the ball and the prince is looking for the foot fitting it. The fairy godmother helped her to meet the prince of her dreams. Cinderella moves in with the prince and they live happily ever after.

9. British Tattercoats lives with her grandfather who doesn't care for her. He vows never to lay eyes on her because his favorite daughter died while in labor with Tattercoats, so she is forced to beg for food and wear rags. Her only friend is a boy who tends to the livestock. When the Prince announces that he will have a ball to choose a bride, Tattercoats and her friend walk to the palace to watch the procession. Along the way, a wealthy gentleman encounters them, falls in love with Tattercoats, and proposes to her. She refuses, but does agree to go to the palace at midnight in order that he may see her again. When she arrives at the palace in her tattered clothing, everyone laughs at her. The wealthy gentleman reveals that he is the Prince and selects her as his bride. Her clothes are transformed into beautiful garments and her friend becomes a squire.

10. China Raised her, Yeh-Shen's only friend is a fish in the river near her home. After her stepmother kills her fish, Yeh-Shen is told by an old man to gather the fish bones and make a wish. She wishes to attend the spring festival, and she is granted a beautiful outfit complete with golden slippers. Yeh-She loses one of her slippers while running away from her stepmother at the festival; however, a villager discovers it and it eventually finds its way to the King. The King searches everywhere for the rightful owner of the slipper, and when Yeh-Shen puts the magic slipper on, her clothes are transformed into the beautiful attire from her night at the festival and the King proposes to her. The story punishes the stepmother and stepsister for their cruelty � they are stoned to death by the villagers.

11. Egyptian The setting may be exotic and the glass slippers may have been replaced by leather ones with toes of rose-red gold, but this is a story no child could fail to recognize. Climo's intriguing variation on the Cinderella tale is based on a combination of fact (there was indeed a Greek slave girl named Rhodopis who married the Pharaoh Amasis), and fable. A trio of uppity servant girls assume the roles of the wicked stepsisters, a kindly master serves as the fairy godmother (to provide the slippers) and a handsome pharoah steps in as Prince Charming. The foreign locals came with complete lotus flowers, a hippo, a great falcon (symbol of the Egyptian sky god Horus) and, the River Nile. Climo hits just the right note in her imaginative retelling of the fairy tale. The text is incorporated in the design of Heller's stylized illustrations with their appropriately lush colors.

12. Germany The magical tale of Cinderella has been retold from a traditional story collected by the Grimm Brothers. The Brothers Grimm were popular German storytellers in the 19th century, known for publishing collections of folk and fairy tales.

13. Ireland In this fairy tale the prettiest girl in Ireland is also the laziest. She spends her time daydreaming about marrying the king's son and living luxuriously in the castle. One day her mom comes home to find the food burnt and the house a mess so the mom chases the girl outside. Who should be coming along the road but the handsome son of the Irish king. The king's son takes her home thinking that she is a hard-working industrious girl. The fairies come to rescue her and she ends up marrying him. They live happily ever after.

14. Jouanah, A Hmong Cinderlla Jouanah, A Hmong Cinderella is the familiar story of Cinderella, the poor overworked step-daughter who marries the handsome prince, in the setting and context of a Hmong village. As the story starts out, the Hmong parents need a cow but can not find one to buy. The wife sacrifices herself for her family, becoming a cow to work the farm. The farmer remarries and the step mother plays mean tricks on the daughter - giving her extra work and little food. In the Hmong version of the story, the daughter is referred to as an 'orphan' - in the end she marries the village chief's son.

15. Korean Pear Blossom, a Korean girl, is treated like a slave by her stepmother and stepsister. Forced to perform impossible tasks. With the help of magical creatures, tokgabis, Pear Blossom finishes all of her tasks just in time to see the prince in a procession. He sees Pear lose her sandal and vows to marry the girl who wears the matching shoe. This version of Cinderella presents real Korean customs.

16. Native AmericanAlgonquin Tribe The youngest sister is forced by her two older sisters to tend the village fire for hours, causing her hair and face to burn from the cinder sparks. The chieftain is seeking a wife, but he is invisible. Although both sisters claim to know what the chieftain looks like, he is visible only to Rough-Face Girl because her heart is pure and honest. She is able to see the his image in the forest and the sky. Dressing herself in a birch-bark dress and worn moccasins, she walks to meet the chieftain. Her beauty is restored after she bathes in a lake, and she is soon married to the chieftain.

17. The Persian Cinderella A beautiful maiden, Settareh, uses the money her father gave her for a snack, to help an old lady, and then buys a small blue jug.  She doesn’t have enough to buy cloth for new clothes for Prince Mehrdad’s New Year’s celebration, so she stays home so her family won’t be disgraced. However, she discovers her little blue jug is magic.  Its inhabitant, a pari, outfits Settareh in a dark red silk dress, beautiful jewelry, and two diamond anklets.  She attends the celebration, but leaves behind one of the anklets. The prince’s mother finds Settareh and introduces her to the prince. However, on the day of the wedding, Settareh’s jealous stepsisters use magical hairpins (obtained from the pari) to arrange Settareh’s hair and she turns into a turtledove. Prince Mehrdad’s love remains & he breaks the spell. Settareh’s happiness begins.

18. CINDERELLA AROUND THE WORLD

19. Children’s Activities Students will match the Cinderella books with the country/continent where they originated from.

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21. Children’s Activities Students will write some similarities and differences between the ten Cinderella stories

22. Mrs. Hodkiewiz’s 3rd Grade Classroom-Olger Brenner

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