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A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery "Alice"

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=292

A lesson plan for Grades K–2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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K–2
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This lesson, found on the EDSITEment website, is part of a unit that explores elements of wonder, distortion, fantasy, and whimsy in The Nursery “Alice,” Lewis Carroll's adaptation for younger readers of his beloved classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. After exploring their concepts about Wonderland, students listen to the opening chapters of the story and view Sir John Tenniel's illustrations from the original edition. Using images of “big” and “small” from Alice's experiences, students develop these concepts in their own drawings. Students then compare Carroll's fantastic animals with creatures from other children's stories and use computers to craft images of their own fantasy creatures.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
    • Objective 6.01: Relate important ideas and feelings visually.
    • Objective 6.05: Recognize that the use of art elements by the artist can tell a story, or describe a feeling or mood.

Grade 2

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.01: Create, discuss, and/or write about whether the content of their artwork is reality or fantasy.
    • Objective 4.02: Create fantasy environments.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
    • Objective 4.03: Invent original and personal imagery from observation and imagination to convey meaning and not rely on copying or tracing another's work.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.
    • Objective 3.05: Recognize how particular authors use vocabulary and language to develop an individual, recognizable voice.

Grade 2

  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
    • Objective 3.06: Discuss the effect of an author's choices for nouns, verbs, and modifiers which help the reader comprehend a narrative or expository text.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
    • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
      • listening to and re-visiting stories
      • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
      • discovering relationships.