This week we began our fairy tale unit with the story, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We read the traditional version and a few ‘fractured’ or ‘twisted’ versions. One of these was ‘Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs’, and another was ‘You and Me’. The students debated on whether Goldilocks was ‘naughty or nice’. On the ‘naughty’ side they decided that she: didn’t listen to her mother to stay out of the woods, and therefore got lost there; she broke into the Bears’ house; ‘stole’ their food (porridge); broke Baby Bear’s chair; and then ‘trespassed’ in their beds. On the ‘nice’ side they decided that she was a good girl who just made some wrong choices and that she didn’t ‘intend’ to do anything illegal or harmful. It was a good group discussion and was meant to show the students that there are usually two – and sometimes more – sides to any issue.
Students then had fun creating WANTED posters about Goldilocks.
They especially enjoyed deciding how much of a reward should be set for capturing this notorious criminal 🙂