Lesson Plan

In this challenge students will consider how someone can show respect by examining the actions of Goldilocks in the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students begin by articulating what kinds of actions would make someone proud of them. Once the teacher has connected these ideas to the concept of respect, students will build criteria for respectful actions. To do this, they will examine several pictures that illustrate both yes and no examples of being respectful. Students will sort the pictures independently in pairs (or will help the teacher sort the pictures as a class) and explain why they sorted the pictures as they did. Students will listen to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They will discuss whether they think Goldilocks did the “right thing”, whether she behaved appropriately, whether she was respectful. Using a storyboard of the Goldilocks story, students will identify the points in the story where Goldilocks was disrespectful and will redraw (or suggest how to redraw) the frame of the storyboard to suggest a more respectful course of action. The final storyboard will frame a re-telling of the Goldilocks story based on the children’s suggestions for more respectful actions.