Cinderella Stories
A good way to integrate multicultural education
into the elementary school literature curriculum is to
do a unit on Cinderella. The Cinderella story has been
written and adapted in many different ways. Almost
every culture has their own version of this story. By
reading and studying different Cinderella stories, the
class could chart the differences in the plots, main
characters and the goals the characters are trying to
reach. With older classes, the students can then dig
deeper into the culture that each Cinderella story
comes from and discover how the cultures' beliefs are
expressed through the story.
Another approach would be that the class could talk about a different country every week. Then
the students would also get the Cinderella book that was from the country they were
talking about.
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