3.1: Traditional tales
This activity encourages students to recognise unfair situations.
Tasks
- Read The Ugly Ducking or similar text to the class as a stimulus for discussion.
- Make appropriate stops throughout the story to highlight the treatment of the duckling by the other animals.
- Discuss with the class:
- Why did they tease him?
- Was it fair?
- How did he feel?
- On butcher’s paper, draw large outlines of both the cygnet and the swan. Ask students to describe how the duckling felt when he was young and rejected and when he was older and accepted. Write the words on the appropriate outline.
- This activity encourages students to recognise unfair situations.
- Teachers may use other traditional tales which depict unfair situations as an alternative. Class discussions should focus on attitudes and perceptions of the characters, as well as fair and unfair situations within the story.
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- The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson or similar text
- Butcher’s paper
- Textas
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