The Three Little Pigs Lesson By: Destiny Furrow

Critical Literacy I want to put critical literacy into my lessons because this is a very important thing in English. Critical literacy is even possible in children’s books! Starting to use critical literacy early in education will help the students grasp it and fully understand it at a younger age.

Three Little Pigs I am using five different versions of the three little pigs over the course of my ten days of lesson plans. I can teach different things about each book and by using similar stories I can also include comparing and contrasting. All of these books are very different, I am also using this as a way to show diversity between the different books, this also plays into critical literacy and across the curriculum.

Different Points of View I am using The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs! By: Jon Scieszka to show different points of view. This book goes from the wolf’s point of view instead of the normal pig’s view. This is something I related to real life because everyone has different points of view on different events. Introduction to invite wonder:“We all see the wolf as a bad character, but what if the wolf was just being a wolf? What if through the wolf’s eyes he was being good? How then would the wolf feel if everyone was talking bad about him? Let’s find out!”

Discussion Questions 1 1. Do you think the wolf is bad? 2.What if the wolf was just doing what wolves are supposed to do? 3. Have you ever had a friend tell a story that was different from yours? 4. Was your friend lying or was that how the friend thought things happened?

Activity 1 We will read The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs By: Jon Scieszka and Illustrated By: Lane Smith. We will act out the book. I will cast roles from the book with students from an alphabetized list. Doing this will get the students involved and out of their seats. Casting Roles: The wolf, Pig 1, Pig 2, Pig 3, and the Cops. *I will mark out the students that have already taken part in this activity in previous lessons, so everyone gets a turn.

Discussion Questions 2 1. Do you think the wolf is bad now? 2. Did the wolf have a different point of view then the pigs? 3. How can this happen in real life? Lecture: We see things differently through our own eyes. Sometimes both viewpoints are right!

Activity 2 After we read the book I will ask the students to write what happened in the story in three short sentences. We will then read our sentences to the class and talk about how everyone’s was different. This will symbolize how everyone has different viewpoints, but no one was wrong. Lesson: We all see the world in different ways.

Goal My main goal in these lessons is to make fiction and fairytales resemble the real world. I want my students to learn lessons and gain knowledge from these stories, not just the content they have to learn. I want to inspire my students through these books that differences is good. It is good in stories, in authors, in clothes, in points of view, and in diversity. Difference is a thing to be celebrated!