The Little Red Hen

Stories about working together from Nicaragua and Mozambique:

The Little Red Hen (download PDF file, Nicaraguan “Little Red Hen”, Mozambican “Peasant Rabbit”, and “The Tortoise and the Elephant”, and accompanying lessons) is a lesson for all Elementary school ages, includes The Little Red Hen in English and Nicaraguan versions, four days lesson plans, work sheets, tales from Mozambique, map, pattern for hand puppet, nutrition and more.

• For all grades: Use the story to discuss the ending & how history could have had different outcomes. Choose an historical time & discuss who was involved with the outcome. Who might have acted in what different ways so the outcome would have been different & to whose benefit? Then choose some current situation & talk about the players and which outcomes they might want & what they would need to have happen.
• For all grades: How would you like today to end? Next week? Next semester? What do you have to do to make that happen? Who would need to help? You can make history.

The Peasant Rabbit (A Mozambican Tale), another story of the joys of cooperation. Click here for story.

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