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Description:

Cinderella is one of the most well-known stories around the world. The earliest recorded version, Yeh-shen, is from ninth century China. The tale always centers around a kind heroine who is persecuted by members of her stepfamily after the death of her mother. There is a magical guardian who helps grant her a wish. The guardian is sometimes represented by her dead mother. The tale also usually involves an epiphany sparked by an article of clothing that causes the heroine's true worth to be recognized.

Objectives:

Each grade level will take a Cinderella story from a country in the continent they are studying. Using graphic organizers created in AppleWorks, the classes will compare and contrast their tales with the classic Cinderella tale. The teachers will display the graphic organizers on television monitors connected to their computers. Students' responses will be added to the organizers, saved, and printed out.

Materials:

Graphic organizers on the computer and print a copy for each student
Computer connected to the television
Cinderella books from America and the country chosen to study
iMovie
Two cameras to use in making an iMovie and a chromokey feature for special effects

Activities/Tasks:

Preparation:

Computer attached to television displayed at the front of the room
Graphic organizers on computer
Cinderella books

Procedure:

Benchmarks/GLE

NETS Standards

Task 1

Each grade level will pick a continent to study. Read the Cinderella story from a country in the continent they are studying.

LA/R: S.1; B:A,B,C

LA/L,V,S: S.1; B:A-E

Task 2

Using graphic organizers created in AppleWorks, compare and contrast their tales with the classic Cinderella tale.

LA/R: S.2;

B:G

LA/W: S.1 B.A

LA/L,V,S: S.1; B:A-E

ARTS/VA: S.1;B:A-C

1,3

Task 3

Display the graphic organizers on television monitors connected to the computers. Have the Students respond to the questions on the graphic organizer and add the responses to the organizers, save, and print out.

LA/R: S.2;

B:A

LA/W:S.2; B:A,C,D

S.3; B:B

2,4,5

Task 4

Students will use their motif charts and pictograph story cards drawn when retelling their Cinderella stories to create an iMovie. Use the blue screen technology which allows you to insert the children inside of their books to sequentially retell the stories and point out the different motifs.

LA/R: S.1; B:B

LA/W: S.2; B:A-E

LA/L,V,S: S.3;B:A,C-F

1,2,3,4

Assessment:

Participation in the class discussions and respond while comparing and contrasting the Cinderella stories
Filling out the graphic organizers while the answers are being type on the computer/television
Participation in the making of the retelling of the story to make an iMovie

Additional Resources:

Books used:

Perrault. Cinderella.
Louie. Yeh-Shen; A Cinderella Story from China.
Cohurn. Angkat; The Cambodian Cinderella.
Cohurn. Domitila; A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition.
Mayer. Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave.
Graphic organizers on the computer and print a copy for each student
Computer connected to the television
Cinderella book from America and the country chosen to study.
Two cameras to use in making an iMovie and a chromokey feature for special effects

Project Example:

Cinderella Venn Diagram pdf.

Cinderella Plot Map pdf.

Cinderella Motif Chart pdf.

Watch a QuickTime video on part of the iMovie

Credits:

Staff at Tillman Center for Mass Communication with Graphic Art and Design, especially Fran Beeson, Media, Specialist Manatee County, FL

Nancy Bacon, Instructional Technology Specialist, Instructional Technology Manatee County, FL

This lesson plan was designed on May 23, 2002

Comments:

This project was completed with students in the after-school program. Each grade level had about ten students in the class. The iMovie project was designed in the school's studio. While filming the iMovie, the classroom teacher and the Media Specialist worked together with the students.

Cinderella

Multimedia Project-Fairy Tales

Grades 1st-5th

Timeline-One Week