Fairy Tales Around the World: Cinderella

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Fairy Tales Around the WorldCinderella

• Angela Furman
• Cuin 3111
• Monday 4-5

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General Information

• Content Area Language Arts
• Grade 3
• Theme Culture
• Purpose Review

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Language Arts TEKS

• 3.13 B Compare experiences of characters across
  cultures
• 3.9 G Identify similarities across texts such as
  in topics, characters, and themes
• 3.9 I Represent text information in different
  ways, including story maps, graphs, and charts.
• Focus Reading comprehension

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American Cinderella

• Characters
• Cinderella, stepmother, 2 stepsisters, Prince,
  Mice, fairy godmother
• Themes
• Magic, Beauty, Kindness, Marriage, Rags to
  Riches

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Algonquin Indian Cinderella The Rough-Face Girl

• Characters
• Rough-face girl, 2 sisters, their father, the
  Invisible Being, his sister
• Themes
• Inner beauty, good rewarded and evil punished,
  mystical happenings, kindness, faith in oneself,
  marriage, magical role of nature

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Caribbean Cinderella Cendrillon

• Characters
• Cendrillon, godmother, stepmother, stepsister,
  prince
• Themes
• Magic, Marriage, Rags to Riches, Sad to Happy

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Egyptian Cinderella

• Characters
• Rhodopis, her master, servant girls, Pharaoh
  Amasis, falcon
• Themes
• Mystical happenings, magical role of nature,
  marriage, standing out

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Mexican CinderellaAdelita

• Characters
• Adelita, Esperanza (godmother), stepmother, 2
  stepsisters, Javier (prince)
• Themes
• Marriage, forgiveness, no magic, intelligence,
  wit, sadness to happiness

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Compare and Contrast

• Similarities
  Differences
• All include a prince Only some include
• figure, a godmother, animals, father
  figures,
• and jealous girls or stepmothers
• All include themes of Only some include
• marriage, kindness, themes of magical
• and rags to riches happenings, the role of
• nature, or uniqueness

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Resources and Credits

• World of Language, Silver Burdett and Ginn,
  Teacher Edition 3
• Language Arts, Third Grade, 1991, HISD, P.
  Sailors-Brune, L. Barnes, L. StalcCombs, L.H.
  Guerrero
• Professional Development Collection, Gale Group
• Infotrac Kids, Gale Group
• Junior Reference Collection, Gale Group

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Resources and CreditsContinued

• Bridges to Reading, Grades 3-6 Teaching Reading
  Skills with Childrens Literature, S.I.
  Barches,1999, Teacher Ideas Press, pages 131-133
• Cinderella, by Walt Disney
• The Rough-Face Girl, by Rafe Martin
• Cendrillon, by Robert D. San Souci
• The Egyptian Cinderella, by Shirley Climo
• Adelita A Mexican Cinderella, by Tomie de Paola
• www.lessonplanspage.com