Continue the clothing drive started in Lesson One: Cinderella.

Anticipatory Set:

Sit in a circle on the floor and tell the students to imagine they are sitting around a campfire in a time long ago before stories were written down. At the campfire, the group is going to retell a familiar story as entertainment for the evening. You are going to start the story of Cinderella and one-by-one the students will continue around the circle each telling a small part of the story in order. Tell students they may add a small portion of the story. Encourage them to use details that help the listeners picture the people and events in their heads. When they are done with their turn, they look at the next person in the circle as a signal for that person to pick up the story line and continue.

• Talk about the experience of telling a story aloud. Talk about the "oral tradition" of fairy tales; how they are spread and evolve over time until they are written down. Help the students recognize that the original story will change with each telling and many versions may exist around the world.
  
  
• Talk about the "universal theme" of kindness and hard work winning over unkindness and laziness. Ask the students why this would be a theme in stories around the world. This is the theme of Cinderella and is also the theme of the book you read next. Tell the students to be ready to describe the characters in the story and to compare Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters to Cinderella.
  
  
• Show the students Africa on a map/globe. Tell the students that Africa is a continent with many countries. The setting of this story is "long ago in a certain place in Africa." We don’t know which country.
  
  
• Read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters aloud to the class.
  
  
• Discuss the story. Compare/Contrast the characters. Compare/Contrast the story with Cinderella. Write student comparisons on chart paper. Prompt the students to compare how the actions of each character affected the whole community/others.
  
  
• Ask each child to list three character traits of both Nyasha and Manyara. Students should identify whether these are positive or negative traits and why. Younger students can draw and label the two characters using words from the brainstorming above. Collect this to use as an assessment.
  
  
• Discuss the fairy tale traits (see Lesson One: Cinderella, Attachment Two: Fairy Tale Traits) in Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters. Look at the list of Fairy Tale Traits and identify which traits are found in this story. Discuss the details: What events were magic and which could really happen? In what different ways was the king shown? Did anything happen three times? Did good win over evil? What is the lesson/moral of the story?
  
  
• Students draw a picture of the little snake in Nyasha’s garden. Ask students to reflect on what character in Cinderella is like the little snake. Discuss.
  
  
• Open-ended writing or discussion topic: Why didn’t Nyasha tell her father, Mufaro, about the way her sister treated her?

• Steptoe, John. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters. Amistad, 1987. ISBN: 0688040454
  
  
• Louie, Ai-Ling. Yen-Shen: a Cinderella Story from China. Putnam Publishing Group, 1996. ISBN: 0698113888
  
  
• San Souci, Robert D., Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella. Aladdin, 2004. ISBN: 0689848889
  
  
• Climo, Shirley. The Irish Cinderlad. HarperTrophy, 2000. ISBN: 0064435776
  
  
• Hickox, Rebecca. The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story. Holiday House, 1999. ISBN: 0823415139
  
  
• Climo, Shirley. The Egyptian Cinderella. HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 0064432793
  
  
• Climo, Shirley. The Korean Cinderella. HarperTrophy, 1996. ISBN: 0064433978
  
  
• Climo, Shirley. The Persian Cinderella. HarperCollins, 1992. ISBN: 0060267631