Monday, February 20, 2012

Hansel and Gretel by Brothers Grimm

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1. Place yourself in the woodcutter’s wife place.  Could she have thought of another solution to feed the family? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Why do you think the woodcutter listened to his second wife? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why would the father have leave the children in the forest, the first time? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why wasn’t the father weeping in the morning after he left his children in the woods? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Why do you think the father couldn’t defend his children in the morning, when the wife went into a rage? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Why do you suppose there was a house made of candy in the middle of the forest? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. Why do you think the witch only locked Hansel in a cage and not Gretel? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8. Do you think the witch underestimated Gretel? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Why did the children stay once they locked the oven with a padlock?  Why didn’t they run for help? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Why did the children continue to eat the house knowing a witch was in the oven? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11. Why did the children go through the witch’s belongings? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12. Why would Hansel suggest to take treasure that belonged to the witch? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
13. Why was the father weeping when the children returned home?  Was he, the woodcutter/father, happy to see them or sad that his second wife was dead? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14. Did the father agree when Gretel said, “Promise you’ll never ever desert us again? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
15. On a separate piece of paper write a three-paragraph paper.  The story needs to be summarized in the first paragraph.  The second paragraph is the moral of the story with evidence.  The third paragraph is your opinion with support.

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