Illustrator: Ruth Heller
Genre: Fairy tale
Grades: K-3
ISBN: 978-0064432795
Lexile Level: AD620L
Read-alikes: Cinderella by Charles Perrault
Summary: A Greek girl gets stolen and is sold by pirates to an Egyptian master. The servant girls in Rhodopis’s master’s household were always making fun of her because her hair, eyes and skin looked nothing like Egyptian. They also made her do most of the work in the house. Seeing her dance very beautifully one day, the master gave her a pair of sparkling rose-red slippers. One day, one of the slippers gets stolen by a great falcon and is carried unto the lap of the pharaoh. Taking it as a sign from Gods, he traveled far and wide to find a girl who the slipper fits to be his queen. Even though the other girls made fun of Rhodopis and thought a non-Egyptian can never be a queen, they soon became to find out pharaoh is free to do as he wills, and that his queen Rhodopis’s eyes are as green as the Nile, her hair as feathery as papyrus and her skin the pink of a lotus flower.
Selling Tool: Read Aloud
Activity: Students of 3rd grade will read both the original Cinderella by Charles Perrault and the Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo. They will then be given a sheet that has a Venn diagram. They will put the differences of each story on each side of the diagram and similarities in the middle of it.
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Goal: Students will pick out differences and similarities between stories of like character
Objective: Using the stories Cinderella by Charles Perrault and the Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo, the students will create a Venn diagram, pointing the differences and similarities between the two stories.
Outcome: Student will learn one way to compare two stories.
Works Cited:
Cliom, Shirley. The Egyptian Cinderella. Harper Collins. 1992.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74143.The_Egyptian_Cinderella
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