The Three Little Pigs
The first pig build his house out of this material.
What is straw?
The materials do the three dassies use to build their homes?
What is grass, driftwood, and stones?
The one similarity between the pigs’ and dassies’ houses?
What is they all used different materials to build their homes?
The authors wrote these stories to entertain and teach a lesson.
What is the author’s purpose?
A person, animal, or being in the story.
What is CHARACTER?
The wolf’s plan to trick the third pig at the turnip field.
What is he asked the pig to meet him in the morning to get turnips, hoping to catch him outside?
The predator in this version of the story.
What is EAGLE?
The way that both predators are similar to each other.
What is they both try to get into the strongest house after failing with the first two?
Jan Brett uses detailed side illustrations to show what happens behind the main story.
What is adding details and clues in the drawings?
A village, countryside, or the pigs’ neighborhood (outside, near woods).
What is SETTING?
This was the method the third pig used to outsmart the wolf at the apple tree.
What is the pig woke up early and got apples before the wolf arrived?
What is the Namib Desert, in Southern Africa, or Namibia?
The one key difference in how the wolf and eagle are defeated.
What is the wolf is boiled, but the eagle flies away with a smoky face?
Joseph Jacobs repeats phrases like “Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin” to make the story memorable.
Why did Joseph Jacobs use repetition?
The wolf trying to eat the pigs and blow their houses down.
What is CONFLICT?
This was what the wolf try after failing to blow the house down.
What is he tried to come down the chimney to get the pig?
This is what the eagle does when it can't blow the stone house down.
What is it tries to fly down the chimney?
The contrast between the two stories' setting.
What is one takes place in the woods or countryside, and the other in a rocky desert or African setting?
The cultural elements in The Three Little Dassies, such as animals, dress, and foods from Africa.
What is the story includes animals, dress, and foods from Namibia/Southern Africa?
In The Three Little Pigs, the principle of right and wrong comes from the message: "hard work and planning ahead leads to safety and success".
What is MORAL?
In Joseph Jacobs' version, this is how the story ends, which is different than the other nicer version.
What is the wolf falls into a pot of boiling water and is cooked; in other versions, he runs away or gives up?
This is what happens to the eagle at the end of the story.
What is it gets a face full of smoke and flies away, never to return?
Which version of "The Three Little Pigs" fable teaches a stronger moral lesson about preparation, and why?
What are planning, hard work, and using strong materials help you succeed?
How the authors’ versions reflect their culture or time period.
What is Jacobs’ story reflects European traditions, while Brett’s incorporates African culture and wildlife?
Beginning – pigs build houses; Middle – wolf blows down houses; End – wolf gets defeated by third pig.
What is PLOT?