Many people have mental subsets or rules about lying for example, some may feel that lying is acceptable when it is intended to avoid hurting someone’s feelings, or that some kinds of untruths are too small to count as real lies. One of the most memorable episodes in the story is the one in which Pinocchio tells a lie and his nose gets longer.In what sense is this characteristic of “real” people? Is this a different use of the word “real”?
At the end of the story, Pinocchio becomes real, through having had kind impulses and unselfish actions.Is it possible to see the story of Pinocchio as being symbolic of real things? For example, the equivalent of being lured away to “Toyland” might be being drawn into drug use. Have students rewrite the episodes to be more realistic for daily life.
Take the sentence strips showing the episodes of the story and sort them into things that really could happen and things that could not.Use a Venn diagram to list the characteristics of a real boy and of Pinocchio, as presented in the story. Pinocchio is a living puppet made of sentient wood, but he wants to be a real boy. One big issue in Pinocchio is the distinction between real vs.
Once the story is clear, consider some cross-curricular connections:
A mask will help with retellings, or make a fun start for a bulletin board. Or choose a ready-made Pinocchio marionette. Use this pattern to make a paper Pinocchio marionette. Enjoy coloring sheets based on the 1940 Disney film illustrations. Some basic worksheets for young children. Then let the small groups present their episodes in order. Put the titles of the episodes onto sentence strips and tuck them into a pocket chart, letting the class give you the order in which they occur in the story. The retelling could be a labeled drawing, an acting out of the scene, a puppet play (check out the Pinnochio Hand Puppets ) or a tableau with a narrated summary of the scene. Divide the class into groups and give each group an episode to retell. There are a lot of different episodes in the story. Disney’s Pinocchio may be the most familiar version for many kids. The Story of Pinocchio is a nicely illustrated picture book. Here’s an illustrated online story book. This shorter version of the story is printable. You can read Pinocchio here, page by page, with the 1927 illustrations. Pinocchio is a fairy tale rather than a folktale, since it contains magic and in fact contains a fairy, but there is also an author, unlike the many fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and other folklorists. Together, they escape and return home, where Pinocchio becomes a real boy and Gepetto rejoices to have a son at last. He gets in and out of scrapes, aided on an emergency basis by the Blue Fairy, and at last finds himself in the belly of a shark or whale - where he finds Gepetto, who has been looking for him throughout his adventures. His desire to be good is in perpetual conflict with his gullibility and distractible nature, but he is rewarded when good and punished when bad. On the way, Pinocchio is led astray and has various adventures. Finding that the puppet can speak and move, Gepetto makes sacrifices to send Pinocchio to school. He comes by a piece of sentient wood and carves it into a puppet. In either version, the action begins with Gepetto, a cobbler or toymaker who yearns for a son. American students usually are more familiar with Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film version of Pinocchio. The book told the story of a wooden puppet who dreamed of being a real boy. Carlo Collodi (pen name of Carlo Lorenzini) wrote his Adventures of Pinocchio in 1883.
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