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12 APRIL 2017
Elementary Fairy tales Note to the teacher
century learning skills
OUR children are riding the great wave of technology today. They now have facts and procedures at their fingertips. Teachers have to equip their students with a new set of skills that allow them to thrive in today’s global economy. The activities in The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education pullout combine literacy skills with content to build this set of skills. The key below indicates the skills integrated into the activities in this pullout.
Critical thinking ● Identify ● Reason ● Measure ● Organise
Creative thinking ● Imagine ● Brainstorm
Tale as old as time DIFFERENT fairy tales exist in different cultures. Some have been turned into movies, plays and cartoons. A popular fairy tale that has appeared in many forms is the classic Beauty and the Beast. Here is one of the versions. A wealthy merchant sets off on a journey. Before leaving, he asks his three daughters what gifts they would like him to bring back. Unlike the two older daughters who ask for expensive things, Beauty asks only for a rose. During his return, the merchant becomes lost in a forest. As a storm rages, he seeks shelter in a magnificent castle. The next morning when he is about to leave, he sees a rose garden in the castle grounds. Recalling his promise to Beauty, the merchant plucks a rose. Instantly, he is confronted by a ferocious-looking “Beast”. The merchant pleads for his life. He is set free only after he agrees to send one of his daughters to live in the castle. But his plan is to return after seeing his family. When Beauty finds out about it, she decides to replace her father. At the castle, Beauty is treated as an honoured guest. She gets to know the Beast and finds him to be kind and generous. After some time,
NiE Activity 1
she becomes homesick and asks to visit her family. The Beast agrees on condition that she returns after a certain time. When Beauty arrives home, her father is overjoyed. Her sisters, however, are envious of her fine clothes and jewels. They stop her from going back. One night, Beauty has a dream of the Beast lying half dead in the rose garden. She rushes back to the castle and finds him seriously ill. Stricken with grief, Beauty weeps over him and reveals her love for him. As her tears fall on the Beast, he is transformed into a handsome prince. He tells Beauty that he had been put under a spell which could only be broken by true love. Soon, Beauty marries the prince and they live happily ever after.
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Problem solving
● Identify ● Reason
● Imagine
● Question ● Present
The story of Beauty and the Beast teaches us that it is not right to judge anyone by appearance. However, it is the way one speaks and acts that tells us a great deal about the kind of person one is. In groups of four, look for pictures of three people in The Star. Cut them out and paste them on a sheet of A4 paper. Without reading about who they are, write a short description of what you think about each of them. After that, read up about them. Then, write a short description of who they are and their characteristics. Are there any differences in your descriptions before and after reading about them? What does that tell you? Present your work in class.
● Brainstorm
Picture of a person taken from The Star
Communicating ● Oral ● Written
Your description of the person BEFORE reading about him
Collaborating ● Listen ● Contribute respectfully
Your description of the person AFTER reading about him
● Connect ● Invent
NiE Activity 2
Problem solving ● Question ● Research ● Recreate ● Present
Communicating
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Problem solving
● Identify ● Reason ● Measure ● Organise
● Imagine ● Brainstorm ● Connect ● Invent
● Question ● Present ● Recreate
What gifts do you think Beauty’s two older sisters had asked their father to bring home from his journey? In groups of four, look for pictures of two items in The Star that each of them could have requested for.
Communicating ● Oral ● Non-verbal ● Written ● Aural
Collaborating ● Listen ● Contribute respectfully ● Compromise ● Attain goals
Cut them out and paste them on a sheet of A4 paper and write a reason below each picture. Then, role-play the characters of the sisters reading out their wish lists in class.
EXAMPLE
● Oral ● Non-verbal ● Written ● Aural
What Beauty’s sisters could have wished for
Collaborating ● Listen ● Contribute respectfully ● Compromise
Reason
Everyone will admire how pretty I look when I go out in this.
At last I can be taller than Beauty!
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