Characters
Setting
Theme
Plot
Critical Thinking
100
Who are the main characters in the story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
Goldilocks and the three bears.
100
Where are Abuelo and Emilio at the beginning of the story: Abuelo and the Three Bears.
They are on the front porch.
100
What is the theme (or what lesson do we learn) in Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
Answers may vary. Example: Listen to your mother. The mother warned Goldilocks to not take the shortcut through the village, because bears live there.
100
What happens at the beginning of the story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
Goldilock's mother asks Goldilocks to go buy muffins in the next village.
100
Who are Emilio and Abuelo waiting for in the story: Abuelo and the Three Bears?
Their cousins/family.
200
Who are the main characters in the story: Abuleo and the Three Bears?
Abuelo, Emilio, Trencitas, and the three bears.
200
Describe what happened at Abuelo and Emilio's home at the end of the story: Abuelo and the Three Bears.
Their family has arrived and they eat together.
200
What kind of relationship do the bears have with Trencitas in the middle of the story? What kind of relationship do the bears have with Trencitas at the end of the story?
The bears are angry that Trencitas came into their home, so they have a bad relationship in the middle of the story. Trencitas invites the bears to her home to eat, so the relationship is becoming friendship.
200
What was the problem with the beans and porridge in the stories?
They were too hot, so the bears had to wait to eat.
200
How are the bears like people?
Answers may vary. Example: They talk, cook, wear clothes, and eat food using spoons.
300
Who invited the three bears to their home?
Trencitas
300
Where are the chairs that Goldilocks sits on in the story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
They are in the parlor.
300
At the end of the story, Goldilocks runs away and never sees the bears again. What should Goldilocks have done at the end of the story?
Answers may vary. She could have apologized for coming in to the bears home, eating their food, breaking a chair, and sleeping in their beds.
300
Sequence the story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Use the sentence stems: In the beginning of the story... In the middle of the story... At the end of the story....
Answers will vary. Example: I the beginning of the story Goldilock's mother asks her to go get muffins, but she goes inside the bear home. In the middle of the story, Goldilocks eats the bears' porridge, sits in their chairs, and sleeps in their beds. At the end of the story the bears catch Goldilocks and she runs away.
300
List two stories where the character goes somewhere that they shouldn't like Goldilocks and Trencitas.
Answers will vary. Examples: Finding Nemo (he goes up to the boat), Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel (go into a strangers home)
400
What happens to little bear's food in both stories?
Goldilocks/Trencitas eat all of the baby bear's porridge/beans.
400
Where do the bears find Trencitas and Goldilocks?
Sleeping in little bear's bed.
400
If the bears caught you, would you have run away (like Goldilocks) or invite the bears to your home (like Trencitas)? Explain your answer.
Answers will vary. Example: I would have run away like Goldilocks, because I would have been scared of the bears!
400
Why did Goldilocks run away?
Answers will vary. Examples: She ran away because the bears caught her in their home. She ran away because the bears were very angry at her behavior.
400
Create a new title for both stories. Explain why you chose this title.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Goldilocks Learns a Lesson Abuelo and the Three Bears: Story Time with Abuelo
500
Compare Trencitas and Goldilocks. How are they different? How are they the similar?
Difference: Trencitas invites the family to her home after the bear's catch her. Goldilocks runs away after the bear's catch her. Similarity: Both girls go into the bear's home without permission.
500
List one similarity and one difference between the settings in both stories?
Answers may vary. Examples: Similarity: Most of the story takes place at the bear's house. Difference: There are more settings in Abuelo and the Three Bears.
500
Thinking about both stories: Do you think that any of the characters go through a transformation(change their ways)? Explain your answer using details from the story.
Answers will vary. Example: I think that Trencitas changes after she learns her lesson about going into people's home without permission. She invites the bears to her home and that shows that she has changed.
500
If the bears did not catch Trencitas or Goldilocks, what might the ending have been?
Answers will vary. Example: Goldilock's Mother would have scolded her for taking too long to go to the village. Trencitas could have run into the bears and explained what she did at their home. (even though they did not catch her)
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