Objectives: Students will examine the documetn and illustrations toee how
children were being told how to behave.
Connections to Frameworks:
History: Learning Standard 2: Students will consider ideas and concerns
expressed by ndividuals of the past that may differ from their own. Learning
Standard 3: Students will understand the many kinds and uses of evidence,
they will differentiate historical fact from historical interpretation.
Learning Standard 5: Students will describe and explain the differing concepts
of human nature and how literature can effect it. Learnig Standard 6: Students
will use technology in researching history.
Language Arts: The Study of Poetry.
Activity Description: Using the Internet to get the document students will
read the story out loud in class and then in small groups they will discuss
and list the moral of the story , how this moral is told, and how the illustrations
effect the story. The class will come together and compare and contrast
the lists. Class discussion will then shift to why this story might scare
the students. How many of them hear "night sounds" that scare
them? Is this story effective?
Information:
Lesson Plan: After reading the story either on the Internet or out loud
in class, students will gather in groups to discuss and list the moral of
thestory, how it is told, and how the illustrations effect the story. After
comparing their lists we will discuss how effective the pictures are for
scaring children. Do the pictures scare any of them? Would this story get
any of them to go to bed on time? What in their house scares them at night?
