This story is about a Russian woman who excels in making the most beautiful eggs in Russia. One day she was preparing to make eggs for the Easter Festival in Moskva. One day Babushka went outside after a snow storm, in the snow she saw a wounded goose that was hurt by a hunter. Babushka took the goose into her home and named her Rechenka. As Rechenka recovered she laid an egg for Babushka every morning to repay her for her kindness. One day, as Rechenka got better she began waddling around the house and as she flapped her wings Rechenka knocked over the basket of Babushka's eggs. Babushka yelled at Rechenka to stop. The next day Babushka awoke to find Rechenka had laid her the most beautiful colored egg she had ever seen. Every morning Babushka awoke to find another egg, and when she brought the eggs to Moskva for the festival she was declared to have the most beautiful eggs in all of Russia. As spring approached Rechenka grew stronger and eventually was ready to leave Babushka. Babushka was sad to see Rechenka leave and missed her dearly. One day Babushka noticed that Rechenka had left her an egg, but this egg was different because it moved and wiggled and eventually hatched. Babushka was left with a piece of Rechenka always as the baby goose stayed with her forever.
I think that this book is very interesting to use in the classroom. The illustrations help to give the students a visual on the different cultural aspects of the book. I would use this book in the classroom by asking students to mark portions of the book that strike them as interesting as well as vocabulary terms that they learned. This way, students can practice analyzing the text they read and connect it to other aspects of their life. I would use a "Talk Back" activity with this lesson so that the students can identify specific parts of the text that they would want to know or learn from the characters or themes or setting of the book.
No comments:
Post a Comment