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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that human tasks and products can provide the starting point for exploring themes of work, community, time, change, and meeting basic needs. They will use comparative literature, historical objects, and re-enactment activities, and will apply knowledge about family and classroom life. They will begin to understand the real-life work involved in the processing of grain to bread by comparing artifacts related to this story.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Pre-activity: Read several versions of the folktale "The Little Red Hen."
Step 2.
Chart comparisons of story sequence, characters' traits, tasks involved in making food, and reasons for/outcomes of cooperation and participation in community.
Step 3.
Look at the items from the PVMA American Centuries web site. Discuss how they help you understand the Little Red Hen's world.
Step 4.
Post-activity: Make puppets to retell story sequence. Discuss, "How did you feel when you said/heard 'Not I' or 'Then I'll eat it myself'?"
Step 5.
Post-activity: Write a story modeled after "The Little Red Hen," researching the history, tools, and science of real products/processes. (My students wrote "The Big Pink Eraser," inspired by the classroom object, researching the growth and product of the rubber tree plant.)
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