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**Lesson #1 ** **Similarities and Differences in Two Versions of “Beauty and the Beast” ** **Essential Question: ** What similarities and differences did you notice in both “Beauty and the Beast” stories? **Goal:** The students will be exposed to a European folktale. The students will be able to verbalize similarities they noticed in both stories. The students will be able to verbalize differences they noticed in both stories.

**Objectives:** Tell a folktale that originated in Europe. Describe similarities and differences in the two texts.

Action Plan: **1. Environment/materials:** **Environment**: The students will enter the library and sit on one of six “floor” chairs. We will be sitting on stools facing them. On the wall will be a map of the world showing both Europe and North America. On the smart board, both of the book titles will be written along with a visual of each of the books to help the children who have difficulty reading, cannot read, or are dyslexic. The titles will be written on a giant Venn diagram drawn on the smart board.

Once we have read each book, we will write a few characteristics of each story on the Venn diagram on the smart board so that the students can use these lists as a reference as they notice similarities and differences between each version of the story. We will also preselect some similarities and differences that we think the students might notice.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">After the lesson is finished, the students will be dismissed to check out books for the last fifteen minutes of class. During this time, they can move around freely in the library.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Materials:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Six “floor” chairs <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Book: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- A First Book of Fairy Tales by Mary Hoffman <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Book: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog by Margaret Read MacDonald <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Smart board – Book titles written on each side of a Venn diagram - World Map (showing Europe and North America)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**2. Special Needs:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The school and class are set up for students with special needs. The class is a small size, with only five to six students in each class. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">We have chosen to read two different versions of “Beauty and the Beast.” We chose a simple traditional version of the story, with vibrant illustrations to accompany the text, as well as a second version (a lively variant of the story) filled with repetitive language and colorful illustrations. The more traditional version that we chose is very short and has easy vocabulary. We did not want to choose a long version of the story or one with difficult vocabulary that the students might not understand, clouding their comprehension of the text. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">We are going to show the students a map of the world, then specify a location on the map to show in which continent the story originated (Europe, in this case). We will also point out North America so the students can see where they are in relationship to Europe. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">After reading each story we will ask the students about anything they noticed in the story. We will write down some of their responses on the Venn diagram. We will then have the students come up and add their own characteristics on the Venn diagram. We will have them draw a picture of their characteristics so that the students who cannot read or write on their own will not feel bad about not being able to contribute. By creating a Venn diagram we will be creating a tangible list for the students regarding the characteristics of each story.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**3. Outline of lesson:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Lesson from 1:00 – 2:00

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Enter the library:__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Students enter library and come to story area. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Introduction to the lesson:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Introduction - Connecting__: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">//We know that you have been studying Europe in your class. Todya, we are going to read to you a folktale from Europe.// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Stand up next to the world map and ask: <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">//Does anyone know where Europe is on the map?// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Point to Europe on the map. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">//And we are all the way over here. That story had to travel very far in order to get to us.// <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Point to North America on the map. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**5 minutes** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Mini-lesson:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">*If necessary, remind them to raise their hands when talking. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The European folktale that we are going to read is called “Beauty and the Beast.” Some of you might have heard of this story before... <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">We are going to read you two different versions of the story. The first version is called “Beauty and the Beast.” <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Read “ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Beauty and the Beast” <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">by Madame de Beaumont. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">10 minutes <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Explore or experiment:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Point to the title written on the Venn diagram. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What did you notice about this story? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">(Characters, setting, plot, etc.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Write their responses on the smart board and add illustrations for some responses. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Do you think there was a moral in this story? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What was it? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">(Not to judge people based on the way they look, but instead by what is inside them.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Summarize the characteristics they have listed. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10 minutes** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Now we are going to read a different version: “ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog” <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">by Margaret Read MacDonald <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">As we read, we will define a few pre-selected vocabulary words (thieves, hedges, bound, stroke, murmur, weeping, muttered, and vowed). <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10 minutes** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Point to the title written on the smart board. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What did you notice about this story? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">(Characters, setting, plot, etc.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Write their responses on the Venn diagram and then have the students come up and draw some characteristics on the smart board.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Do you think there was a moral in this story? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What was it? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">(Not to judge people based on the way they look, but instead by what is inside them.) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Summarize the characteristics they have listed. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**10 minutes** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Assessment:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Did/Do you notice anything that was similar (the same) in both books? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Pointing to the lists written on the smart board, remind them of some of the characteristics they mentioned that they noticed in each of the stories. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Circle the characteristics they list as similar and write them in the middle of the Venn diagram. Summarize the characteristics they have listed as similar.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Did/Do you notice anything that was different in both books? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Pointing to the lists written on the smart board, remind them of some of the characteristics they mentioned they noticed in each of the stories that are not circled. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">After they respond, summarize the characteristics they have listed as different.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Conclusion:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">We will conclude the lesson by pointing to the lists written on the smart board. We will remind them of some of the characteristics they mentioned that they noticed in each of the stories, as well as similar characteristics and different characteristics. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**5 minutes** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Check-out time__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">All right, you now have ten minutes to browse and checkout books. Enjoy! <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">
 * 10 minutes**