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Cinderella and "Cinder" Tales:
A Long Term WebQuest
 
INTRODUCTION
Well, Lucky Students!  You are going on a WebQuest! A WebQuest is a SEARCH for information using the Internet and other resources like BOOKS!...
Let us Make-Believe
that it is
the FUTURE.
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Let us Make-Believe 
that there are no more Human Storytellers. 
:-(   :-(   :-( 
Our technology is starting to crumble, go blank and the information is starting to disappear....
Our society is loosing the very stories that have helped us through time! 
We are losing our history! 
We are losing the lessons that our people need to know to live together!
:-0   :-0   :-0
Your Team of Researchers (information gathers) 
Must Save one of our stories 
and the life lessons in the story. 
Your Team needs to gather information and SAVE
the Cinderella and 
Cinder Tales of our Human Culture. 
Our Society is counting on Your Team!
;-)  :-)  ;-)
Good Luck!
Cinderella and Cinder Tales  have been "Told" for eons.  Eons means "for a long, long time." Human Storytellers used to be the tellers but, now, books, television, videos, the Internet and other technology tell us the stories! Human Storytellers told the stories so the people listening would LEARN A LESSON that would help the people "get along" with the other people they lived near and with!  Cinderella and Cinder Tales HAVE LESSONS for US!  Cinderella and Cinder Tales are not "GIRL STORIES!"!!!
Many Main Characters in the Tales are MALE/BOYS/MEN!!!!
Surprised?... If you are that is okay... Surprise is good.  Surprise pushes you to help save all the stories and their valuable lessons for all of us!  Good Luck on your Quest!
THE TASK
THE PROCESS
There are 9 Information Gathering Exercises and 1 Final Presentation equaling 10 steps.
Check with your teacher/facilator to find out if your team are doing all 10 steps or select parts of the WebQuest.
  1.   Cinderella from around the world
  2.   The parts of the Cinderella story... recognizing the lessons
  3.   The History of the Cinderella story
  4.    Boys or Girls... Cinderella is not a "Girl" Story
  5.    The Cinderella Highway... Cinderella Travels
  6.    Cinder Tales From our Native American Indian Cultures
  7.    Ashpet: The "American" Cinderella
  8.    Cinderella Plays... puppets tell the story
  9.    Fractured Cinder Tales... Cinderella stories with twists
  10.     Final Project... An Original Creative Cinderella or Cinder Tale... to be presented to the class
1.  Cinderella Stories come from around the world.  Cinderella and Cinder Tales change locations and countries but the lessons are always in the stories.
Choose 6 Different Cinderella or Cinder Tales from the Resource List.
You may select All print or a Combination of  books and Internet. Make sure the stories come from different parts of our world!
READ the Stories.
Then... Look at a Map of the World (hint: encyclopedia, atlas, will help)...
DRAW one simple World Map for your team.
Mark the map with the Title of the Cinderella story at the location of the Country of its origin.  Also, add the name of the country and the Main Character.
Hang the map up in your work area when you are done!
 2.  The parts of the Cinderella story... recognizing the lessons.  Every Cinderella Story has a lesson but your team needs to be able to understand the parts of the stories to find the lessons.  Read 6 Cinderella or Cinder Tales.
Fill out the Parts of the  Story Work Forms.
Hang the sheets up next to the maps when you are done.
(Be Good to yourselves... Use the same 6 Cinder Tales you just read to create your map!)
3.   The History of the Cinderella story.
Your Team needs to discover the history of the
story.  Where was it First told? Why was it told? When it was told? How was it told?
Use the History Link at the
http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/cinderel/index.htm
Cinderella Main Page: part of the SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
Also,  go to the Library Media Center and use the Reference Books.
Take Notes!
Create a Power Point or Hyper Studio Show to present your facts to the class.
(hint...Make sure you have used at least 3 resources for information and include a list of the resources in your presentation!)
4.  Boys or Girls...Cinderella is not a "Girl" story!
From our resource list READ a "Girl" and then a "Boy" Cinder Tale.
Take a Big Piece of Chart paper.  Divide the paper into two.  On one side of the paper draw a "girl" Cinderella from one of the versions.  On the other half draw a "boy" Cinder Character from one of the stories.  Label the sides with the title of the story, the name of the Cinder Character AND the LESSON.  Make sure the culture, setting and all the other details are included on your poster.
Hang the poster in your work are when you are done.
5.   The Cinderella Highway... Cinderella Travels
Watch the Video "The Carrot Highway"... take notes about the history and travels of the carrot...
What Country did the Carrot start out in?  In what Year? From there where did the carrot travel? What countries? What happened to the carrot in each country?  What is the carrot like now compared to the history?...
Now, Read:
Climo, Shirley
The Egyptian Cinderella
and
The Persian Cinderella

Read: (one French Version)
Perrault, Charles
Cinderella
or
Cinderella And other Tales From Perrault
or
Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper
(freely translated from the French of Charles Perrault)

Read: (One Irish or English or Scottish version)
Climo, Shirley
The Irish CinderLad
or
http://members.xoom.com/darsie/tales/index.html
The Princess And The Golden Shoes: A Scottish Cinderella Tale
or
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/delamare/delamare.html
The Cinderella Project: University of Southern Mississippi

Read:
San Souci, Robert D.
The Talking Eggs: A Folk tale from the American South

OKAY... Here's the Project.... Your Team has learned about the Carrot and You have read different versions of Cinderella that took a similar travel path.
THINK... AND Then...
Write a short essay about the travels of the Carrot and the Cinder Tales.
Anything the Same???? Anything Similar???  Anything Connected???
Compare and Contrast the Carrot Highway and the Cinderella Highway.
You are going to need to THINK but I know you can do it!

6.   Cinder Tales From our Native American Indian Cultures
Read
 The Rough-Faced Girl (Algonquin Indian) and/or
"Cinderella" or The Turkey Girl... ( Zuni).
If you know of another story not on our resource list you could also read that.

After reading the stories, pick one and
CREATE a Wordless Picture Book to retell the story.
Make sure your Team's illustrations include all the story parts, all the characters and the story's lesson.
When your Wordless Book is done, Read it out loud to make sure it is complete.
Post it in your Work area for others to read and enjoy!

7.   Ashpet: An "American" Cinderella
Your Team needs to compare a Book version and a Film (video) Version.
Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale
The Oryx Multicultural Folk tale Series:  Cinderella (includes... Ashpet)
 Smokey Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella
Ashpet: An American Cinderella...
Additional Resources are below.
Pick one of each. READ the Book First. 
Now,
Read aloud the beginning of the book a second time.....
Stop when you start getting into the middle, the action of the story...
Review with your listeners what they have learned so far.... characters and the details of
age, color of hair, height, weight, as well as the details of the setting...
On a chart record what the Team thinks...
Show the beginning of the film...
Stop when you start getting into the middle, the action of the story...
Make a chart for the character and setting details from the film...
Examine the two lists....
Discuss what is the same with the two versions of the story and what is different...

Read aloud the middle of the book....
Stop when you start getting into the end, the resolution of the story...
Review with your listeners what they have learned so far about the action... what is the
series and sequence of events.... What is the conflict/problem that needs solving?
On a chart record what is the series and sequence of events... What is the
conflict/problem that needed solving?
Show the middle of the film...
Stop when you start getting into the end, the resolution of the story...
On another chart record what were the series and sequence of events in the film ....
What was the conflict/problem that needed solving?
Examine the two lists....
Discuss what is the same with the two versions of the story and what is different...

Read aloud the end of the book....
Review with your listeners what they have learned so far... How did the author resolve
the story... what happened to the characters?  What do you think will happen after the
end of the story... what is unwritten but might take place?...
On a chart record what the listeners think...
Show the end of the film...
Make a chart for the film ending...
Examine the two lists....
Discuss what is the same with the two versions of the story and what is different...

Examine all the charts... And Post them in your work area...
Write a short essay/ story about the two versions of the story you experienced...
make sure You state which one they liked the best and why....

8.   Cinderella Plays... puppets tell the story.
Select a Play from the Resource list.
Create the Puppets, scenery and practice the play.
Your audience will be looking for details and the lessons of the stories.
All the plays will be performed for our class and in our Library Media Center for an audience.
You will find Puppet ideas in the Library Media Center in the Non-Fiction area in the
700 area.  Use the Computer Catalog or ask the Library Media Specialist for help!
9.   Fractured Cinder Tales... Cinderella stories with twists
Read Three And Pick ONE favorite....
The One Favorite You are Going to create a "Movie Poster" for that book.
Make sure all the Important Selling points of the story are included on the poster.
Use BIG Chart Paper and lots of Color! (hint... Don't forget the Title, Author, Main Character, and the names of your Team members as "Producers")
Some suggestions...
Pamela Duncan Edwards' Dinorella: A Pre-Historic Fairy Tale
Susan Meddaugh's Cinderella's Rat
Caralyn  Buehner's Fanny's Dream
Frances Minters' Cinder-Elly
Janet Perlman's  Cinderella Penguin or the Little Glass Flipper
 Other titles can be found on your Resource List.
10. Final Project.... to be presented to teacher and class
AN ORIGINAL Creative Cinderella or Cinder Tale.
The story Must be Your Own!!! No Copying!!!
The story Must contain all the lessons of a Cinder Tale!
The form of the Cinder Tale is the choice of your Team.
It could be MultiMedia, Power Point, Hyper studio,
video presentation (story, documentary, news show),
a play, a puppet show, a wordless story book, a picture book with word and words,
a series of charts or posters, masks to use and display, a web page to add to our site,
a small, short term WebQuest or  do the WebQuest http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/cinderella/Cinderella.html
A New Twist On an Old Tale: An Internet WebQuest on Cinderella ( it is on our resource list)
or  ???????? (check with your teacher if your team has another idea)
See the Evaluation section below to check what your teacher will be looking for...
LEARNING ADVICE
1.  READ !!! and READ some more!!!
Please Do NOT expect the information to JUMP off the computer screen or the book pages into your brain and on to your paper!!!!;-)

2. As you READ or Watch the Tales pay special attention to

 
3  Take notes or make flow charts or maps or draw reminders to your self

4. The Internet is only ONE source of Information!  Make sure you use books, encyclopedias and periodicals (magazines)!

CONCLUSION
WOW!  Wonderful Outstanding Work!!!
You learned all you could about our Cinderella and Cinder Tales.
You Learned the lessons that almost were lost to our human society!
You saved our Cinderella and Cinder Tales because of your research and hard work! 
By saving our Cinderella and Cinder Tales, YOU HAVE Helped SAVE OUR SOCIETY! YOU HOLD the Information to help our people live together more peacefully.
Congratulations!
Remember,  the Lessons revealed to you from the stories and use the information every day in your life!
 

EVALUATION
Your Team can earn up to 100 points on this WebQuest. 50 points from the  teacher/facilitator evaluation and 50 points from your peers.
Each Team Member will be graded on your Final Presentation. Points will awarded on participation, creativity, neatness, accuracy, originality, and clarity.  Your teacher/facilitator will also be watching to see how cooperatively the group works during the WHOLE WebQuest, that all members of the team are working TOGETHER to gather the information needed to create your final project.  The final project MUST show the teacher/facilitator and the rest of the class that the Cinderella and Cinder tale stories and the lessons for our Human Society were found and understood....
 
Points... 9-10 points 7-8 points 5-6 points 3-4 points 0-2 points
Overall Impression Excellent! Cinderella Stories and the lessons are still important! Great! 
Our Society has a future! You found most of the lessons.		 Good! Our Society need you to review the lessons again... Okay... But... 
Did you read the story?		 OH! NO! You missed the major Lessons in the Cinder Tales!!!  Our society is in trouble!
Team Work Every team member contributed to every part of the project just like the main Cinder Characters. The team was dominated by one member but every team member helped make the project. Some members of the team were expecting the Cinder characters of the stories to do the work. The Team tried and tried and tried but just couldn't fit into that slipper! One person acted as the Ruler of the kingdom and did the whole project!
Creativity/Originality WOW! I never thought of the story that way... Neato! I like the new twist on the story... Regular but interesting 
story.		 Story is familiar but still has some different elements... I know this story...
Information Accuracy... lessons, characters/culture, setting/time The Facts.. Crystal Clear. The Facts... some not very clear. Some Facts and Some Fiction. A lot of Fiction and a few Facts. Fiction... Fake... 
Where are the truths?
Content Stays focused              completely on topic and task, ideas              organized,  stays focused. Mostly focused on the topic or task. Somewhat on topic or task. Is off the topic most of the time. Completely off the topic... This project was on... what??? 
has little or no focus on the topic.
 
EVALUATION BY (Circle one)    TEACHER    OR     PEER/TEAM MEMBER

Overall impression= _______
Team Work= _______
Creativity/Originality= _______
Information Accuracy= _______
Content= _______
Points Earned = _____/50

Total Points=_______/100      Final Grade =______

INFORMATION RESOURCES

Here is a list of places that you will be using to gather information about Cinderella and Cinder Tales.
You will be using SOME of the resources listed.
The lessons will tell you what Information Resources you will need to be successful!
 

RESOURCES of Cinder Tales
This list is by no means COMPLETE!!!!
These are titles that are available to HES LMC patrons and the LMS!
The LMS would love to learn of recent (after 1999) titles...
contact via albertin@harwich.edu
thank you, maa
Internet URLs

http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/cinderella/Cinderella.html
A New Twist On an Old Tale: An Internet WebQuest on Cinderella
Created by Rene, Wesley, and Stacy
University of Richmond
Learning about Ancient Greek Culture using Cinderella as the medium
This WebQuest is for Grades 4/5/6

http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/cinderel/index.htm
Cinderella Main Page: part of the SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
created by Heidi Anne Heiner
includes the History of Cinderella, the Annotated Cinderella, Tales Similar to Cinderella, Cinderella Themes in Art, Cinderella Art Gallery, Cinderella Annotations and Cinderella Bibliography

http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/delamare/delamare.html
The Cinderella Project: University of Southern Mississippi
created by Michael N. Sada and a group of Graduate Students at the University of Southern Mississippi
a text and image archive (a word and picture library) of approximately 12 "English" versions of Cinderella from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection

http://www.disneymania.org/ceni.htm
Disney's Cinderella
This text was taken from the funet archive and converted to HTML by Frank Pilhofer
Pictures, Music, Video Clips, Story Text and ***warning-warning!*** merchandise links!

http://www.hiyah.com/library/cinderella.html
read along with this narrated Cinderella tale from Hiyah.com. (Need Shockwave).

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/016.txt
Grimm's Fairy Tales: Cinderella
This book contains 209 plain text tales collected by the brothers Grimm.  The exact print source is unknown.

http://members.xoom.com/darsie/tales/index.html
The Princess And The Golden Shoes: A Scottish Cinderella Tale
site created by Richard Darsie
Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=LanBlue&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=7&division=div
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=LanBlue&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public
Cinderella Story  from
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912. Blue Fairy Book, Story 7
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

wysisyg://70/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bungalow/8227/cinderella1.html
Kevin Teter's Cinderella Page
created by Kevin Teter
clip art library of "Walt Disney's Masterpiece" Cinderella

Books
Buehner, Caralyn
Fanny's Dream
pictures by Mark Buehner
unpaged/picturebook(Boston Globe Hornbook)
Dial, 1996
 
Climo, Shirley
The Egyptian Cinderella
illustrated by Ruth Heller
unpaged/picturebook
Crowell, 1989

Climo, Shirley
The Irish CinderLad
illustrated by Loretta Krupinski
unpaged/picturebook
HarperCollins, 1996

Climo, Shirley
The Korean Cinderella
illustrated by Ruth Heller
unpaged/picturebook
HarperCollins, 1993

Climo, Shirley
The Persian Cinderella
art by Robert Florczak
unpaged/picturebook
HarperCollins, 1999

Cole, Babette
Prince Cinders
unpaged/ picturebook
Putnam, 1987

Compton, Joanne
Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale
illustrated by Kenn Compton
unpaged/picturebook
Holiday House, 1994

Edwards, Pamela Duncan
Dinorella: A Pre-Historic Fairy Tale
illustrated by Henry Cole
unpaged/ picturebook
Hyperion, 1997

Grimm, The Brothers
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
ANY edition!!!

Jackson, Ellen
Cinder Edna
illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
unpaged/ picturebook
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1994

Lattimore, Deborah Nourse
CinderHazel: The Cinderella of Halloween
unpaged/ picturebook
Blue Sky Press, 1997

Louie, Ai-Ling
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
illustrated by Ed Young
unpaged/picturebook
Philomel, 1982

Martin, Rafe
The Rough-Faced Girl (Algonquin Indian)
illustrated by David Shannon
unpaged/picturebook
Putnam, 1992

Meddaugh, Susan
Cinderella's Rat
32 p/picturebook
Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Minters, Frances
Cinder-Elly
illustrated by G. Brian Karas
unpaged/ picturebook
Viking, 1994

Perlman, Janet
Cinderella Penguin or the Little Glass Flipper
retold and illustrated by Janet Perlman
unpaged/picturebook
Viking, 1992

Perrault, Charles
Cinderella
translated & illustrated by Diane Goode
unpaged/ picturebook
Knopf, 1988

Perrault, Charles
Cinderella And other Tales From Perrault
illustrated by Michael Hague
78 p
Holt, 1989

Perrault, Charles
Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper
(freely translated from the French of Charles Perrault)
with pictures by Marcia Brown
unpaged/picturebook(Caldecott Medal)
Scribner's, 1954

San Souci, Robert D.
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
illustrated by Brian Pinkney
unpaged/picturebook
Simon & Schuster, 1998

San Souci, Robert D.
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
pictures by Jerry Pinkney
unpaged/picturebook (Caldecott)
Dial, 1989

Schroeder, Alan
Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella
pictures by Brad Sneed
unpaged/picturebook
Dial, 1997

Sierra, Judy
The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series:  Cinderella
(includes...Rhodopis, Yeh-hsien, Cinderella, Peu d'Anisso, Aschenputtel, Alleerleirauh, Little One Eye, Cap O'Rushes, Billy Beg and the Bull, Fair Brown and Trembling, Hearth Cat, Katie Woodencloak, The Wonderful Birch, The Story of Mjadveig, Little Rag Girl, Vasilisa, The little Red Fisha and the Clog of Gold, Nomi and the Magic Fish, How the Cowherd Found a Bride, The Invisible One, Poor Turkey Girl, Ashpet, Benizara and Kakezara, Maria, The story of Tam and Cam)
178p/index
Oryx Press, 1992
 
Steptoe, John
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
unpaged/picturebook (Boston Globe/Hornbook, Caldecott)
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1984

Thompson, Stith, collector
Folk Tales of the North American Indians
(p 225, "Cinderella"...  Zuni: Cushing, Zuni Folk Tales, p.54)
JG Press, 1995
 

Video Tapes

Adventures From the Book of Virtues: Honesty featuring The Indian Cinderella
Color/Stereo/Approx.30 min.
PBS, 1996

Ashpet: An American Cinderella
Color/Live Action/ Approx. 45 min.
Davenport Films, 1990

Prince Cinders
Color/ Animation/ Approx. 25 min
First Run Features, 1994

Stories from the Black Tradition
(Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters)
Color/ Animation/Approx. 52 min.(5 stories)
Children's Circle(Wood Knapp), 1993

Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story From China
Color/Animation/ Approx 25 min
FoxVideo, 1985
 

Periodicals
Cap o'Rushes. Feather, Jean. Plays (December 1996), 38-44
A father tests his daughter's love in this English Cinder folk tale, Middle and Lower Grade Play
15 characters, 20 minutes

Cinderella. D'Arcy, Alice. Plays (April 1997), 38-43.
Fairy tale favorite adapted by Alice D'Arcy, Middle and Lower Grade Play
17 characters, 20 minutes.

Cinderella. Thane, Adele. Plays (May 1977), 51-60.
Fairytale favorite adapted by Adele Thane, Middle and Lower Grade Play
14 characters plus extras, 35 minutes.

Cinderella and Company. Tesh, Jane. Plays (January-February 1998), 37-42.
Bright but meek pencil pusher finally gets the boss's attention, Middle and Lower Grade Play
9 characters plus extras, 15 minutes.

Cinderella Hollywood. Boiko, Claire. Plays (April 1996), 29-36.
Movie version of fairy tale favorite, Middle and Lower Grade Play
18 characters, 35 minutes.

Cinderfellow. Nolan, Paul T.. Plays (April 1986), 18-26.
Rags to riches: a comic twist on the Cinderella story..., Junior and Senior High Play
10 characters, 25 minutes
 
Cinder-Rabbit.  Baher, Constance Whitman. Plays (April 1990), 27-34.
Cinderella in an Easter Setting, Middle and Lower Grade Play
12 characters, 25 minutes

Cinder-Riley.  Boiko, Claire. Plays (March 1985), 37-42.
Cinderella in Ireland gives a hilarious twist to this old favorite..., Middle and Lower Grade Play
10 characters plus extras, 20 minutes

Jiminy Cinders.  Miller, Helen Louise. Plays (May 1993), 49-57.(March 1981), 41-50.
Cinderella deep in the heart of the U.S. west, Middle and Lower Grade Play
8 characters (all male!), 25 minutes

A Modern Cinderella. Hollingsworth, Leslie. Plays (October 1988), 1-12.
If the shoe fits...., Junior and Senior High Play
6 characters, 25 minutes
 
Unlucky Cinderella.  Jackson, Marilee. Plays (April 1993), 43-49.
If the shoe doesn't fit-improvise!, Middle and Lower Grade Play
9 characters, 25 minutes

The Way-Out Cinderella. Cable, Harold. Plays (February 1977), 19-32.
Doing "the hustle" (disco dance) at the ball..., Junior and Senior High Play
9 characters plus extras, 35 minutes

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Video Tapes
The Carrot Highway
Color/Live Action/ Approx 40 min
Whisper Productions, 1995
 

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Last updated November 30, 1999... maalbertine
all comments and questions to albertin@harwich.edu
Mary Ann Albertine
Library Media and Instructional Technology Specialist
maa
This Cinderella WebQuest and the Lessons were created for adaptation in Grades K-4, however,
the author feels that the majority of the Webquest is best used in Grades 3/4 and higher.
Certain Lessons, like the WebQuest: A New Twist on an Old Tale by Rene, Wesley and Stacy at the University of Richmond, are definitely for Grades 4/5 and higher.
The WebQuest was created as an ongoing long term project, however, individual lessons can be selected and used independently.
This WebQuest contains lessons that are linked back to Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in Social Studies (History and Geography) and English Language Arts.  The author did not have a copy of the Arts Curriculum Frameworks at the time of the creation of this Quest but, she believes that lessons here will also support the Arts Frameworks.
This WebQuest was created for a course called "Implementing the History and Social Science Framework in the Elementary Curriculum"...  Fall 1999... Sue Keohan, professor.
See Teacher Page for additional information