Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood by Mike Artell (folktale)

Petite Rouge Riding Hood, a small Cajun duck that lived in the Louisiana swamp with her mother was sent to her Grandmere's house with some gumbo (soup) because she was sick with the flu. On her way there, she ran into o'l Claude the alligator who wanted some of her gumbo and maybe her too. Petite Rouge refused to share the gumbo and thought she scared o'l Claude away, but when she reached Grandmere's house, it didn't go as planned.
This story is very fun to read because the text is written using Cajun language. After reading this book aloud to the students, we would compare and contrast the language and lifestyle of the Cajun community to our own communities. This would help introduce a lesson on community differences when teaching social studies.

To incorporate technology, I would have to students log onto Glogster.com and create a collage of what they think is a great community.

http://janq123.glogster.com/edit/glog/?action=glogs_create

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