Frog Who Is Racist Agains Babies

Objectives

At the cease of the lesson, students volition be able to:

• discuss a folk tale and translate its meaning.
• write a unlike ending to a folk tale.

Essential Questions

• How should people treat other people who may be unlike from them?
• How do people develop prejudice, racism and intolerance of others?

Indelible Understandings:

• People should exist accepting of other people and their differences, and find ways to get along regardless of those differences.
• Humans are born with a natural respect for other people, but they learn prejudice, racism and intolerance from order.

Materials

• Copies of the text for the play
• Poster board, if needed, for props

Vocabulary

• Porquoi tale [pour kwuh tayl] (noun) a kind of a story that tells explains how or why something in nature came near (for instance, how the camel got its hump or the leopard got its spots)
• prejudice [prej-uh-dis] (noun) an opinion, feeling, or judgment—formed without knowledge or reason—almost a person or members of an ethnic, racial, or religious group
• racism [rey-siz-uhm] (noun) a belief that one's race is superior to others and that one has the right to boss others; also that a particular racial group is inferior to others
• tolerance [tol-er-uh ns] (noun) respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich multifariousness of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human.

Suggested Procedure

Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together: A Pourquoi of Prejudice is a play that promotes tolerance. Here'south how to make the most of it.

1. Include all students. Casting should not be competitive. Actors can include understudies who take turns playing roles and likewise participate in the grouping roles of copse and flowers. Assign multiple students to the narrator function.
2. Program uncomplicated costumes and props. Proceed costumes basic. (For case, green T-shirts for frogs, gray T-shirts for snakes, yellow for sun, blue for moon, brown for trees, vivid colors for flowers, white for wind and black for the pourquoi instructor and narrator or narrators.) If there are students who are non acting or reading, assign them to design props. Apply poster lath to make the dominicus, moon, wind, flower and trees. Father Frog should concord a large newspaper with a large heading reading The Daily Wing. Parent animals tin be sitting watching television, playing cards or cooking. Those activities may be pantomimed or students may create simple sets to accompany the play.
3. Read the play aloud as a class.
4. Write the word questions on an easel pad. Read them aloud, and encourage students to respond as a group or to write responses individually.
   • What did the frogs and snakes practice when they met each other in the forest?
   • What did they learn later on that dark from their parents?
   • What do the youngest frog and snake do at the very end of the story that brings united states of america promise? Why does it bring united states of america promise?
5. Hash out with students that the story can have some other ending—a unlike, happy ending that results in everyone being friends. Guide young students, as a group, in developing some other closing scene for the story. Invite older students to write their own terminal scenes. Encourage students to share their piece of work.
   • Write these questions on an easel pad to help students come up upwardly with ideas for writing their ending:
   • What might happen if the frogs and snakes continued to play together later they were told non to?
   • What would the frog parents and snake parents practise if they met?
   • What would happen if the 2 families were to meet at a park and become to know each other?
6. Suggested Uses of the Play
   • Back-to-School night
   • Parent-Teacher night
   • Equally a traveling prove where older classes perform for younger classes in the same school
   • Equally a traveling bear witness where a middle or high schoolhouse students travel to an elementary schoolhouse
   • Every bit a traveling show for students to perform for customs groups

Options for Early on Grades:

Invite parents, guardians or students from upper grades to perform the play for preschool children or kindergartners. You may besides invite students to draw the characters on poster boards, cutting them out and put them on sticks and perform the play as a puppet testify.

Common Cadre State Standards: ELA-Literacy. CCRA. R.1, R.2, R.3, R.vii, W.three, Ws.seven, W.9, SL.1, SL.4, L.1, L.4

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