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The Fisherman and His Wife

** Pre-reading Activity: **
Choose one of the questions below to answer on **our class blog** before reading our story.
 * 1) ===In our story the wife is discontented with her life. What do you think it means to be discontented?===
 * 2) ===In our story the fisherman and his wife have the opportunity to have a wish granted. What is ONE thing you would wish for at this time in your life?===

angled, enchanted, cast, dreadful, daresay, plague, larder, fortnight, cottage, nevertheless, tapestry, chandeliers, carriage, herald, scepter, gazed, emperor, marshaled, precious, contented,
Choose 1 of the following activities to complete on your own paper.
 * 1) Group and Regroup - think about these 20 words. Create a Tree Map showing 5 ways you could categorize these words. Some words may fall into more than 1 category. (i.e. Words that Describe a Character, Nouns, Words with More Than 3 Syllables, etc.). Every category has to have at least 2 words in it and every word must be placed in at least 1 category.
 * 2) Vocabulary Analysis - Choose 4 words to work with. For each word create a Tree Map with the following headings: Definition, Part of Speech, Synonym or Antonym, How Used in Story, My Own Sentence

** Directed Notes Activity: **
During the second reading of the story look for places that show places where the FISHERMAN is not being nice to Alice and mark them with an F and look for places where ALICE is not being nice to the fisherman and mark those places with an A. After your second reading write a post in our class blog OR answer the following question on paper:

Why can't the fisherman and Alice be happy together?

Remember that your answer is your opinion and is your Claim. Be sure to give Evidence from the text and Reasons for your thinking.

Choice Activities:
(Choose ONE activity that you would like to complete do from this section.)
 * 1) Thinking Maps - Compare and contrast the Fisherman and his wife, Alice, using a double bubble map. Write a short paragraph stating what ways the two characters are similar to each other.
 * 2) ABC Wishes - write the alphabet down on a piece of paper. Write a wish you have for each letter of the alphabet (you may have more than one wish for some letters). Then go back with a yellow marker and mark the 5 wishes that you would most like to have come true for you. Then use an orange marker and mark the 5 wishes that you would most like to have come true for someone else. On another piece of paper rank each set of wishes so that you tell me the Top 3 Wishes for Me and My Top 3 Wishes for Others. Tell me why you chose the number one wish for each list.
 * 3) Another point of view - The fish in the story claims to be an enchanted prince, but he doesn't choose to use his great powers to return to a human state. Why? Is it because he is a prince of fish Does he like being a fish better than a human? Are his powers only available to him when he is in fish form? Write the story from the point of view of the fish.
 * 4) Read All About It! Write a newspaper telling about the new King or Emperor of the land. Be sure to include the people's reaction to their new leader. A good news story uses all 5 W's (who, what, when, where, why, and how).
 * 5) Fisherman as a career - create a tree map explaining the job of being a fisherman in the time of our story. Then do some research about real fishermen today - read about the occupation of a fisherman. Create a tree map of what is means to be a fisherman today. Use this information to create a Glog about being a fisherman. (If you are not a PAT student, have Mrs. Fullhart assign you a Glogster Account.)

Blogging Choices:
Go to our blog. Remember that your answer is your opinion and is your Claim. Be sure to give Evidence from the text and Reasons for your thinking.
 * 1) This story is about greed and gratitude. It is also about recognizing when we have enough. At what point do you think Alice should have been satisfied with what she had?
 * 2) The fisherman doesn't ask for more and more - his wife does. Do you think he should have stood up to his wife and refused to ask the fish for her next demand?
 * 3) Why do you think that Alice is never content with what she has?

Read the blog posts for //The Fisherman and His Wife// of three of your classmates and leave a comment.