Little Pig, Little Pig

Designed by: Helen McGough, Arden Elementary

Grade Level: First Grade   Subject(s): Language Arts

1) Core Curriculum Objective: Make comparisons of situations, characters, emotions, solutions, and texts. (1-CM-9)

2) Overview:  The students will use different versions of the story the Three Little Pigs to discover and compare the elements of a story.  They will compare the pigs, their situations, their emotions, and the text. They will look at the situations and see if the solutions are the same or different.   They will accomplish this by role playing, creating a pop-up book, completing a story map, etc.

3) Essential Questions: 

What’s the situation (problem) in each story?

How are the characters the same and/or different?

Do they show the same emotions in each story?

Does each story have the same solution? If not how do they differ?

4) Time Frame: Five language arts periods of 30 to 50 minutes.

5) Resources:

The Three Little Pigs retold and illustrated by Yuri Salzman

The Three Little Pigs illustrated by Nina Barbaresi

The Three Little Pigs illustrated by the Walt Disney Studio

The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell and illustrated by Jim Harris

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas and Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

Book Cooks by Creative Teaching Press

Alternatives to Worksheets by Creative Teaching Press

Teaching Basic Skills through Literature by Creative Teaching Press

http://www.op.net/~uarts/three_little_pigs/

http://www-ed.fnal.gov/ntep/f98/projects/ornl/student.html

http://www.innotech.com.hk/3-pigs2.htm

http://littlehouses.nb.net.cmpigs.htm

http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/ch

6) Materials:

Construction paper

Markers

Squiggly eyes, feathers, sequins, etc.

Pop-up book – with at least four pages

Card stock paper

Story map

Chart for assessment

7) Assessment:

Students will complete a chart comparing two versions of a story. They will compare the situation, characters, emotions and solutions of the two stories

8) Rubric:

Student has compared two story situations, characters, emotions, and solutions.  

9) Instructional Activities

Activity One:

Objective: Make comparisons of situations, characters, settings and solutions.

Teacher will read several different versions of the Three Little Pigs.  Students will look at the pictures and discuss the stories.  The teacher will introduce the different elements of the story. Students will identify and briefly discuss the situation or problem, the characters, the setting, and the solution of the story.

Activity Two:

Objective: Make comparisons of character’s emotions and costumes.

The students will review The Three Little Pig’s story.  The Teacher will explain, today they are just going to look at the characters. The teacher may access
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~odenbach/pigs/pigs2.html.

In this version it talks a lot about how the characters feel at different times during the story.

Brainstorm how the characters look, feel and act during the story. List those characteristics under each character and discuss. Ask if they can think of anything else that might identify the characters.

Each student will choose a character he/she would like to portray. They will get together with other students that have chosen that character.  They will work together to create hats that best tell the qualities of their character.

Each group will have a turn to act like their character and explain their hats.

The rest of the class will formulate questions about the characters being portrayed.

The hats will be worn to lunch.

Activity Three:

Objective: Make comparisons of situations (problems) and possible solutions.

The students will again review The Three Little Pig stories. The teacher

will explain, today they are going to talk about the situation (problem). When it is established that the problem is keeping the wolf out of the house or the pig out of the house (depending on the version), then compare the different houses.

Give each student a pop-up book that has at least four pages. Give them four squares of heavy card stock paper. Ask them to draw the three pig’s houses, one on each square.  On the last square draw the house that they would build to keep the big bad wolf out. Let them paste them onto the pop-ups.  They can add background and text as time permits. Give everyone a chance to tell about the houses they drew and why their house would keep them safe from the wolf.

Books will be displayed in the library.

Activity Four:

Objective: Make comparisons of solutions to the problem.

The students will review The Three Little Pig’s story by accessing http://www.op.net/~uarts/three_little_pigs/   .The teacher will explain that today we are going to look at ways the pigs or wolves found to solve their problem.  Review the problem that they described last period. This site is an interactive fairy tale. Students may pick which character they want to tell their side of the story. They choose between the third little pig, the wolf, or the mother pig. Discuss whether the problem is the same for each character or not. How were they the same/different?

Each group will take a different version of the Three Pigs.  They will complete a story map. They will explain the setting, the characters, the problem and the solution. They will chose whether to draw or write about each area within their group. Teacher will monitor each group to check for understanding.

Each group will then decide how to present their solution to the other groups. They may act it out, draw a big picture or read what they found from completing their story map.

Story maps will be placed in the hall.

Activity Five:

Objective: Assessment

The students will be given a chart about the Three Pigs. They will draw and/or write about the situations, the characters, the emotions, and the solutions of two different versions. They are to show how the stories are alike or different in each area.

Extensions:

1)     make puppets and act out the story

2)     make pigs in a blanket with hot dogs and biscuits

3)     Use the other internet sites for more investigation