Additional+Ideas

=Additional Ideas - please add in anything that you have done that has worked well in your classes here.=

· Have the student create a timeline of the Cinderella stories from around the world

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· Have the student predict how the story would evolve in the year 2025 and write a future Cinderella story for different cultures =====

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· Encourage the student to design a multicultural mural that represents the multicultural diversity that is evident in the Cinderella tales that they have read. =====

· Have the student write an essay on why no one Cinderella story is the "true" version,
//Does happily ever after really exist?//

· Have students compile a list of stories/films/non-fiction tales that have the Cinderella stories at their heart.

 * Chinese Cinderella: **

Read Chapters 18–20. Complete the Study Guide questions: **Close study of the text** and Reading Log.


 * Chapters 16 - 17**
 * 1) 1. Explain how Adeline “saved face” in the egg incident at school. (Chapter 18)
 * 2) 2. What is it about King Lear that appeals to Adeline? What connections are there to her own family? (Chapter 18)
 * 3) 3. Briefly explain the term “serendipity” (page 197, Chapter 19).
 * 4) 4. What advice does Ye Ye give to Adeline? (Chapter 20)

**Reading log**
As you read the book:
 * keep a record of the main events and characters you meet or learn about in each group of chapters
 * record your comments and predictions about the plot, your responses to characters’ thoughts and actions
 * record new words you have learnt.

Use the following headings in your reading log:

Chapters: 18 - 22


 * Key events:**


 * Characters: (include thoughts and feelings)**


 * Your comments:**


 * Interesting words and their meanings: (5 minimum)**

The following activity develops students understanding of the narrative technique of point of view.

Ask another teacher to come into your classroom and pretend to make a scene. Alternatively, a recent incident in the playground can be used. Ask students to write down what occurred and how they felt about it. Ask volunteers to read their responses to the class.

Explore the variations in each account and possible reasons for them. Ask the guest teacher to return and give her version of events. Discuss the concept of point of view:

- refer to conflicts in playground between student/student, in class between teacher/student and at home between parent/child

- can there be different points of view?

- why do we have different points of view?

- what does point of view depend on?

- introduce the synonym perspective.

Explain that variations in reports of incidents from eye witnesses to police occur all the time. This is the reason why investigators try to gain the statements of as many witnesses as possible so that they can obtain a balanced version of events.

Explore and discuss examples of newspaper items where bias or one point of view has been used. Discuss the concept of bias and its limitations.

//Chinese Cinderella// is an autobiography and therefore all characters and events are viewed and interpreted through the eyes of Adeline. As a result of this we have to be aware of the possibility that some of the messages presented may be affected by her bias.

Although Adeline’s version of events may seem completely truthful we must keep in mind that everything is told from her point of view. Using Chapter 18 discuss how the incident about the egg could be seen differently by the others involved such as Rachel or Monica.

Ask student to choose one of these characters and write their version of the “egg incident” from that character’s point of view.