Introduction
The story of Cinderella is one of the most well-known stories all around the world. This story has been rewritten in many languaguages and representing many cultures. There are many different versions to this story. The story is based around a kind and sweet young lady who, after the death of her parents, suffers a great deal at the hands of her step-family. Despite many similarities, there are a great number of differences among the different versions. The tasks involved in this webquest will guide you to analyze and synthesis the different stories.
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The learning tasks in this webquest addresses the needs of all learners. For the visual learners, story summaries will help their comprehension, as well as the graphic organizers and rubric. For the auditory and kinesthetic learners, the Cinderella stories found on-line can be read to them to facilitate their learning. The interactive learning activities engages the kinesthetic learners and facilitates their understanding. By working in cooperative groups, students are able to generate more ideas and experience success in projects (Tomlinson, 2000). Also, by including components for all learning styles represented in the group, it ensures the success of all students (Morgan, 2013). According to De Jesus (2012) differentiating instruction, by including activities for all learning styles represented in the classroom, all students succeed.
Task
For the culminating activities, you will embark on a special journey yourselves. You will first, review the five of the different Cinderella stories we have studied. In your group, you will first, discuss the differences and similarities of each. For the comparing and contrasting portion, you will focus on the main characters, the magical elements and the ending of each story. Then, you will analyze, through your group discussions, what the underlying theme of all the Cinderella stories is. Your final task is to write your own group's version of a Cinderella story. Make sure your story contains a beginning, middle and end.
Process
To begin your quest...
• In your group, go on the link http://www.lowvilleacademy.org/webpages/MBlow/cinderella.cfm?subpage=86…. In this link, you will find summaries of each of the Cinderella stories we have read in class. After your group has reviewed each story, pick 5 which you will compare and contrast. You will use a graphic organizer to keep your notes organized.
• After you have completed the graphic organizer, comparing and contrasting the characters, magical elements and endings, go on the following two links to review each story in a fun and interactive way. •http://kids-learn.org/cinderella/activities.html •http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/blanchard/hicks/Reading%20Pages/Cinderella/ci…•When your group has completed the activities on each website, begin to create your own version to the Cinderella story. Use the graphic organizer to help you get started, organize your ideas, and include all the necessary components, such as characters, setting, plot and details.
Evaluation
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Did I Have a Beginning, Middle, and End?
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You had a very clear beginning, middle, and end. |
You had a beginning, middle, and end, but parts were unclear. |
You left out the beginning, middle or end. |
You only told about one event, so there was no beginning or ending.
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You were missing one or more of the components.
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Is My Story Easy to Follow? Does it follow an organized sequence?
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Your story followed an organized sequence and was easy to follow. |
You mostly followed an organized sequence, but got off-topic once or twice. |
You got off-topic a few times or the information you gave did not follow an organized sequence. |
You had part of the plot, but was missing some elements. |
Your story was incomplete, and I could not follow the story. |
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Did I Use Good Details So That the Reader Can Make a Picture in His Mind?
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You used details that made the story more interesting, and I could picture everything that was going on in your story. (characters, setting, problem, and solution are all included.) |
You used some good interesting details, but could have used more description of either the characters, setting, problem, or solution. |
One story element (characters, setting, problem, solution) is missing or unclear. |
You only used one or two descriptive words, and I was confused about many of the story elements (character, setting, problem, and solution). |
You left me with a lot of questions about the story elements when I finished reading because there were no details. |
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Did I spell everything that a 2nd Grader Should Know How to Spell?
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You spelled everything I expected you to spell correctly, and gave your best shot at the harder words. |
You made one or two spelling mistakes in your story that I expect you to be able to spell. |
You made a few mistakes (3-5), but it did not make your story hard to read. |
You made many spelling mistakes, but I could still understand your story. |
You made many spelling mistakes which made it hard to read your story. |
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Did I Use Capital Letters Where I Needed To?
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You used capital letters at the beginning of each sentence, for the word “I,” and for every proper noun. |
You forgot to capitalize one or two words. |
You forgot to capitalize three to five words. |
You made many capitalization errors, but you did use some capital letters where they were needed. |
You did not use capital letters in your writing. |
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Did I put periods, question marks, or exclamation marks at the end of each sentence? |
You punctuated every sentence correctly. |
You made one or two mistakes with punctuation. |
You made three to five errors with punctuation. |
You made many punctuation errors, and had many run-on sentences. |
You had no punctuation in your story, and it seemed like one long sentence. |
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Did I Use Neat Handwriting and Turn in a Neat, Clean Story? |
You used your best handwriting, erased all your mistakes clearly, left plenty of space between words and turned in a clean copy of your story. |
You used good handwriting, but got sloppy at one or two parts, tried to squeeze too many words on one line, or had a few spots that weren’t erased all the way. |
You wrote so that I could read the story, but it wasn’t your best handwriting, or you had quite a few spots that were messy. |
You did not use your best handwriting and had quite a few spots that were messy. |
You turned in a rough draft quality story that was very difficult to read and/or was very messy. |
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Conclusion
Through our Cinderella Around the World Study, you learned how to compare and contrast different versions of the same story. You learned how stories can change as a result of culture, values and traditions. By analyzing the underlying theme embedded in all the stories, you learned how themes can be woven throughout a story to teach readers important lessons. By brainstorming ideas and writing your group Cinderella story enabled you to synthesize and apply the different lessons on plot, setting and character development. Congratulations on finishing your webquest. I will create a class book with all your Cinderella stories.
Credits
The following resources were used in this webquest...
• http://www.lowvilleacademy.org/webpages/MBlow/cinderella.cfm?subpage=86…
• http://kids-learn.org/cinderella/activities.html
• http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/blanchard/hicks/Reading%20Pages/Cinderella/ci…
References
De Jesus, O. (2012). Differentiated instruction: Can differentiated instruction provide success for all learners? National
Teacher Education Journal, 5(3), 5-11.
Morgan, H. (2013). Maximizing student success with differentiated learning. The Clearing House, Volume 87, 34-38.
Tomlinson, C.T. (2000). Differentiated instruction: Can it work? The Education Digest 65(5), 25-31.