Unit
Topic
Theme
Region
Length

Fernando M. Reimers et al.

K.6

If Things Look Different, How Can We Be Fair?

Arts: literature and drama and creative communication
All/ any

Five weeks

Goals and Objectives

Skills

Learn to become familiar with different fairy tales and folktales
around the world.

Inspire students to treat people fairly.

Act by creating their own fairy tales on the theme of fairness.

and Knowledge

Students will learn the components of common fairy tales and folk—
tales around the world.

Students will talk about their thoughts about fairness and why it is
important.

Students will write and illustrate original fairy tales.

Overview
Children read folktales and fairy tales whose theme is fairness from around

the world; the folktales also serve as a review of the different kinds of dif—

ferences and similarities learned earlier in the year (e.g., differences and

similarities in clothing, buildings, climates, contexts, animals, celebrations,

families, houses, etc.). The students then write and illustrate their own fairy

tales. They learn about different puppets from around the world and com—

pose a puppet show with puppets and props that they make to represent

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