I've been teaching a Cinderella unit for decades now and always begin by having the class tell the version they already know, each child adding a sentence as we go around the circle. This telling is always dominated by the Disney/Perrault version, but sometimes as we get toward the end there will be someone who will, with great relish, tell of the stepmother's bloody efforts to make her daughters' feet fit the slipper. More occasionally someone else will know of those girls' dreadful final p...
Published on August 09, 2010 07:04