Cinderella Across the Globe Mrs. Swinford, Mr. Hallman & Mr. Ross

Subject & Grade Level  This Unit will be used in a Middle School Literature class.  Students will read a diverse selection of Cinderella stories from around the world.  Students will examine how Cinderella stories reflect information on a country’s unique culture.  Students will make their own Cinderella story based on their own self-defined culture, keeping in mind essential plot elements.

Curriculum Framing Questions  Essential Question: Who is Cinderella?  Unit Questions: How do we know it’s a Cinderella story? What must all Cinderella stories have?

Oregon state standards  EL.06.RE.03 Listen to, read, and understand a wide variety of informational and narrative text, including classic and contemporary literature, poetry, magazines, newspapers, reference materials and online information.  EL.06.RE.04 Make connections to text, within text, and among texts across the subject areas.  EL.06.RE.05 Demonstrate listening comprehension of more complex text through class and/or small group interpretive discussions across the subject areas.  EL.06.RE.06 Match reading to purpose--location of information, full comprehension, and personal enjoyment.

Unit goals  Students will Read a diverse selection of Cinderella stories from around the world.  Analyze variations of the Cinderella story to identify plot elements that all Cinderella stories have in common.  Analyze similarities and differences of Cinderella variations by charting observations using a Features Analysis Chart and Venn-Diagram chart.  Students will reflect on how a plot element can seem quite different yet accomplish the same purpose in the narrative.  Students will examine how Cinderella stories reflect information on a country’s unique culture.  Students will make their own Cinderella story based on their own self-defined culture, keeping in mind essential plot elements.

Cinderella in korea cinderella

Cinderella in Mexico Domitila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition. Adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn. Illus. by Connie McLennan

Cinderella in Zimbabwe Steptoe, John. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters.

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