also Nikos Litinas, “Strabo’s Sources in the Light of a Tale", in: Daniela Dueck, Hugh Lindsay, Sarah Pothecary (edd. There are at least 10 other versions (including Korean, Native American, and Italian) of Cinderella, each from different countries, so students could get into groups of 3-4, according to which version they want to choose, and then create a summary and analysis of the version they got. Additionally, folktales have usually been passed down through generations of a common people, while realistic fiction is created by one person's ideas. This story talked about cultural differences and how a character can be teased by how they look different than others within that culture.

For her eyes are as green as the Nile, her hair as feathery as papyrus, and her skin the pink of a lotus flower’”. When the Pharaoh throws a ball, the three other serving girls of the house get to go, but the slave girl must stay behind. while others object to the idea that the villains of the piece (such as they are) are darker-skinned than the heroine.Then, the girls are invited to see the Pharaoh where Rhodopis is told she has chores rather than being allowed to go. Therefore, I just couldn't read it without thinking about my lectures and readings on ancient Egyptian people and traditions slowly consumed by the historical forces of Alexander the Great and Greco-Roman colonization (I know, I'm really fun at parties : P). com/teaching-resource/the-egyptian-cinderella-resource-bundle-descriptive-writing-12423880 Tes paid licence How can I reuse this?

It follows a servant girl who was taken from Greece to Egypt and since then has been picked on for looking different to everyone else.Reading multicultural books in your classroom is an excellent way for teachers to introduce students to the perspectives of people from cultures all around the world, and teaches them about people beyond the walls of their American classroom. She dropped out of college and took up her mother's work writing scripts for the weekly WGAR-Radio children's program Fairytale Theatre.

One thing I noticed while reading is that it incorporates the geography of Egypt into it (ex: The Nile river and the Mediterranean Sea). Beauty is firstly not only skin deep, but people look different and it shouldn't take a Pharaoh to make this apparent to everyone. The main character, Rhodopis, is stole and sold to slaves where she undergoes a lot of bullying because she looks different than the other Egyptian girls. Three Egyptian servant girls serve as the wicked step sisters, a kind master is the godmother (who also provides the slippers), and there is a handsome pharaoh that serves as the prince charming.I read it and loved it as a child, without any thought about how the story sat in a wider cultural context.

This is an 8 day DIFFERENTIATED TEACHING POWERPOINT complete with a success criteria for each lesson, talk tasks, learner tasks as well as accompanying resources for the book, The Egyptian Cinderella. BUT, I think that there are some racial overtones that I didn't pick up on as a kid and that I don't like. This book by Shirley Climo and illustrated by Ruth Heller (who is a great- and one of my fave- illustrator) is a great book telling a very similar story of Cinderella.

These negative reviews tend to point out two rather disturbing realities: first, that there is a great deal of ignorance about the ancient world abroad in our culture; and second, that it is apparently taboo to depict a darker-skinned person as a villain, even if this may reflect reality. The story itself is about a blond-haired, green-eyed girl who was captured as a slave from Greece and taken to Egypt. Older students can analyze this book and discover symbolism and cultural aspects used throughout the book. The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the late first century BC or early first century AD and is considered the earliest known variant of the " Cinderella" story.