Agenda
1) Warmup: What is your favorite fairy tale and why?
2) Little Red Riding Hood
Homework
None
Today we began the narrative unit in earnest. We started by reading Little Red Riding Hood—we read the oldest known version, from Tales of My Mother The Goose by Charles Perrault (1697). This is different from the more common version: in the original the wolf eats Red's grandma and then eats Red, the end. We also read the revised ending written by The Brothers Grimm for their book Children and Household Tales (1812), where a huntsman comes along and cuts the wolf's stomach open, saving Red and her Grandmother.
I like to start the narrative unit by reading this story because everyone is familiar with it, so when we start discussing the plot, conflict, protagonist, antagonist, theme, etc., the kids already know the story, so it's easier to learn the new terms. We will use fairy tales in a similar way a little later in the unit.
Advisory
In Advisory today we discussed 9/11. We reviewed what happened, and I tried to help the kids understand what happened and its repercussions.
