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February  2004
Underground Railroad

NEW 2/11/04
Narratives by Slaves from the Library of Congress
American Memory Website. 

History Happens

Time for Kids: Black History Month

Take The Harriet Tubman Quiz

Harriet Tubman Vocabulary Quilt

History of the Drinking Gourd

Marco Capelli singing Follow the Drinking Gourd

National Geographic Society:  Underground Railroad: The Journey

 January 2004 - South America

Prentice Hall World Explorer Chapter 9 Self-Test

A to Z Kids Stuff Search Engine

The Andes Mountains

Habitats of the Andes Mountains

Geography World: Latin America Games, Puzzles, Quizzes and Trivia

Stingrays Extra Credit Enrichment - October 2003 - Due by 10/31/03.

Pumpkin Globe
Use a real pumpkin to create a globe. Use paint, markers,
fabric, or any other material to show the continents. Label each continent (correct
spelling!). You may include additional labels, such as oceans, important lines on
the globe, etc. Include your name and class color (written on the pumpkin, tag on
pumpkin stem, or tape.) BE CREATIVE!

The Five Themes and Fairy Tale Frolics
Objective:  Students will apply their knowledge of the five themes of geography
to create "new" fairy tales. This project may be completed alone, or with a partner  in the same color class.  Each poster will be presented.
 

Fairy tales are, of course, make-believe.  Therefore, they do not take place
nywhere in the real world. It is interesting, however, when looking at legends,
myths, and tales from cultures all over the world, that similarities in stories appear.
The same lessons are expressed by people from many different places and times
in history.  The differences are in the settings, the dress, the food, and the life
styles of the characters.  Cultures make their stories agree with their familiar
surroundings and ways of life so that the young people they are intended for can
relate to the tales.  This strategy of recognizable settings will hopefully drive the
message home more readily, teaching lessons about culture, manners, and values.

The five themes of geography provide a structure for successful frolicking with fairy
tales.  Students will take well-known stories and customize them into tales with a
well-defined setting, relating not only the message of the tale but geographic/
cultural awareness.

Procedure:
Select a fairy tale.  Suggested stories include "Cinderella"; "The Real Princess"
/"The Princess and the Pea"; "Briar Rose"/"Sleeping Beauty; "Little Red Riding
Hood"; "Rumpelstiltskin", and "Rapunzel". Read through the story.  Research a
country of your choice and complete the Fairy Tale Frolics worksheet. Print out
 the worksheet, if needed, and insert these details into the story.

Following the directions, you will develop a poster of your tale as a finished product.
Rewriting is the first step.  The goal is to leave the story intact as much as possible,
taking out only the things that are in disagreement with the location that you have
chosen.  When the story is adjusted sufficiently, you should rewrite the story
in final draft form, and design a poster as the directions explain.

Fairy Tale Frolics Poster Instructions
Partners:
1.  Research a country by complete the Fairy Tale Frolics sheet.

Rewrite the Fairy Tale.
Goal:  To retell the story as if it takes place in the country you researched.  You
must be sure that the main idea or message of the story remains intact.

2.  Together, read through the story, deleting any details that do not agree with
the information you found out about the country you researched.  Replace those
details with things that are consistent with the culture of the country you researched.
For example, if in the country researched the people live in tents and in the
fairy tale there is a castle, this must be changed.  The castle might become a
large tent.

3.  Go back through the information sheet and make a mark next to any detail
you have included in the story so far.

4.  Select more items of information from your research to include in the story. 
Work the information
in creatively throughout the tale.  You many change as much as you want, as long
as it does not change the main idea of the story.  One thing to consider is the name
of the main character, should it be changed to a name that seems more
appropriate for the country researched?

5.  Once all the changes have been made and agreed upon, write a final draft on
school paper or word processor.  If it is more than one side of one piece of paper,
go on to a new sheet instead of turning the paper over.

Continue the project by following these directions:

Design a Fairy Tale Frolics Poster
Goal: To show, on a poster, how the five themes of geography have been worked
into the fairy tale.

6.  Using the design shown here (or another idea, if approved by the teacher),
develop a poster with drawings, pictures from magazines, or cartoons.