Thursday, October 22, 2009

Lon Po Po- a Chinese Version of Little Red Riding Hood

COMPARING FAIRY TALES
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND LON PO PO

Question Lon Po Po Little Red Riding Hood
By Charles Perrault
How many children
are main characters? 3 1



Where we meet
the wolf? Beginning of the Story:
Wolf comes to the house. In the woods.

What the characters
call the Grandmother? Po Po Grandmother




Where the mother is during
the wolf’s visit with the children? Visiting Grandmother At home


Who saves the children? The children save themselves No one


What happens to the wolf? He dies. He eats the girl

How the story ends? The mother returns Wolf eats Little Red
with baskets of food from Riding Hood
the real Po Po and the three
sisters tell their mother about
the Po Po who had visited them.


I would use these stories to teach:
· comparing similarities and differences
· Story Elements
· Sequence of events
· Making Predictions
· Using Illustrations
· Making Inferences
· Rewrite the end of the story
· Pretend you are one of the girls, how would you tell your mother what happened?
Here are a couple of good websites I found that have some neat lessons.
“Little Red Riding Hood”- http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html
Creative Connections: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/folk-tales/resource/7940.htmlLesson on Comparing and Contrasting: http://www.vickiblackwell.com/lit/lonpopo.html
Lon Po Po: A Chinese Fairytale Lesson Plan
By Elizabeth Mazzurco website: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=658&print=1


Other versions:
Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault). Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten up by the wolf in the end.
Little Red Cap (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm). In this story although the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood get eaten up by the wolf, a huntsman was passing by and heard the wolf snoring and said that couldn’t possibly be a woman snoring. He cut the wolf’s belly and out came Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.
Little Red Hood (Germany/Poland). Same ending as Little Red Cap. The girl and her grandmother get eaten by the wolf, a huntsman comes by and cuts the wolf’s belly open and out skips Little Red Riding Hood and later out comes her grandmother barely alive.
Little Red Hat (Italy/Austria). In this story it is not a wolf but an ogre who gobbles Little Red Riding Hood up at the end of the story.
The Grandmother (France). The girl meets a werewolf. Just as she is about to get in bed with the werewolf she realizes that it isn’t her grandmother. She tells the werewolf she has to go to the bathroom. The werewolf ties a string to her foot and gives her enough string to go outside to do her business. As soon as the girl gets outside she cuts the string and runs away. The werewolf jumps out of bed to follow her but gets to her house right when she walks inside.
The True History of Little Golden-Hood (Charles Marelles). In this story the girl is called Little Golden Hood. In the end when the wolf tries to eat the girl (Blanchette or Little Golden Hood) she puts her head down and begins to cry for her MaMa. As she lowers her head the wolf gets a snip of her red hood and it begins to burn his throat.

I didn't know there were that many different versions. All were about the same with slight variations. I only knew about Lon Po Po as my wife had the book and told me it was good for comparing and contrasting and teaching of Chinese Culture. I hope you enjoy the information.

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