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Why might that be? Nihon is Japanese for Japan, where the element was first created. Maria : How could we hate you, my dear? Does a bear hate the beetle it crushes beneath its paws? Maria : Now return to your chores, or you will have no dinner tomorrow either—or any other day this week!
SD2 : Vasilisa is sweeping the porch. She pauses to look out at the farm, at the neat rows of cabbage and the bushes bursting with wild berries. Maria : I want the windows washed, dinner cooked, and the chamber pots scrubbed before sundown. Peter quietly : If you should ever want to leave, my family would gladly take you in. My wife and I could teach you our trade. Vasilisa : I am grateful, Peter. But I promised my father I would look after our home.
This play is based on a Russian folktale that dates back centuries. You may be familiar with the one involving a pumpkin and a glass slipper. To learn more, check out our slideshow above. Trust us, these stories are nothing like the fairy tale you may have heard when you were little!
Vasilisa : If you make me do this, I fear you will be cursed. You will wither from your own wickedness. Maria shouting through the door : If you return without fire, we will not let you inside! Maria : Well, girls, I daresay there is now nothing that will stop us from getting what we deserve.
SD1 : She comes to a clearing. In the center is a hut—but this is no ordinary hut. It is perched atop a pair of giant chicken legs. SD1 : The hut takes a few steps forward on its chicken legs and squats to the ground. The door opens. And I. I have been sent to ask you for light. A helpful grandmother figure—like a fairy godmother—is a key element in Cinderella stories.
But Baba Yaga is hardly a kindly grandmother, even though she does ask Vasilisa to call her Babushka which means grandmother.
She appears in many Russian folktales and is often depicted as an old woman who flies around in a wooden bowl, paddling through the air with a wooden stick. Because why not? She has incredible powers, which she may use to help you—or to harm you. Baba Yaga : You have asked me for light, but you must earn it.
If you fail, I shall bake you into a pie. Now, fetch me my dinner. SD1 : Vasilisa brings a platter brimming with meat from the oven. Baba Yaga devours it like a lion feasting on its prey.
Baba Yaga : Here is your first task. While I slumber, you must separate all the peas in that sack on the floor—the green ones from the white. If you do this before sunrise, perhaps I will let you live.
My cat will scratch your eyes out, my dog will tear you to pieces, and my gate will trap you. Vasilisa, like the heroine in many Cinderella stories, has a special connection with animals and nature.
SD3 : Vasilisa opens her eyes. To her astonishment, the peas are neatly separated into two piles. Baba Yaga : It seems you shall live another day. Now, your next task shall be to fetch water from the river—with that. SD2 : She points at a bucket that is full of holes. Vasilisa gulps, then picks it up and leaves. SD1 : Vasilisa follows it. She races through the forest, the branches scratching at her face. SD2 : Finally, the magpie lands in a nest high in the trees.
It drops bits of mud in the nest to hold the twigs together. SD3 : She runs back to the river and begins patching the holes in the bucket with fistfuls of mud and twigs. Baba Yaga : You separated the peas, which shows you are a hard worker. You brought water in the bucket, which shows you are resourceful. And now you are picking lice from my scalp, which shows you are kind. Baba Yaga : It seems you are worthy after all. Leave now, and take a skull to light the way.
Vasilisa : For my part, I have forgiven you. They speak to the audience. And when he heard all that had happened, he was overjoyed that I was safe. Peter : Vasilisa became a weaver, famous across the land for her great skill. Her work drew the attention of the tsar himself.
Vasilisa : When I met the tsar, we fell in love and were eventually married. I lived a life of comfort and joy the rest of my days. Special thanks to Sibelan Forrester, professor of Russian at Swarthmore College, for her assistance with this play. Once upon a time, a young heroine is stuck in a truly awful situation. Her stepmother and stepsisters inflict nothing but pain and suffering on her.
But eventually, with some pluck and a bit of help from her magical friends, the heroine escapes her wretched circumstances and marries a handsome prince. Everyone lives happily ever after—except the horrible stepmother and stepsisters.
They get what they deserve. There are countless modern versions too. Cinderella has appeared on stage, on TV, and in movies—most recently in a film starring Camila Cabello as an aspiring fashion designer. Why has this story lasted for so long? And why do we keep telling it over and over? After all, the idea that happily ever after means marrying a prince is awfully old-fashioned.
Things have changed! The fact is, there is something deep and universal in the story that still resonates with us today. We want to believe that evil will be punished and good will win the day. We want to believe that no matter how hard things get, there is always hope for a better tomorrow. And of course, we love rooting for the underdog, whether in sports, literature, or our own lives. In the Olympics, the USA hockey team beat the team from the Soviet Union, which was considered the best in the world.
In sports, people call a victory like this a Cinderella story. Read the play and the article and view the slideshow at Scope Online. Then write your own Cinderella story. It can be set in any time or place. Essential questions: What makes a story timeless? What makes a story universal? How can we overcome the challenges we face? Project the Theme Anticipation Guide on your whiteboard or share the Google Form version with each student both are available in your Resources tab.
Have students decide whether they agree or disagree with each statement, then discuss. After reading the play, ask students how they think the characters would respond to the statements in the Theme Anticipation Guide. Project our Cinderella Stories From Around the World slideshow, which builds knowledge about the many versions of the Cinderella story and the archetypes that recur throughout them.
Project Vocabulary: Definitions and Practice. Review the definitions as a class. Optionally, have students complete the practice activity for homework. Highlighted words: aspiring, chamber pots, gaunt, gnarled, grotesque, hearth, pluck, resonates, reverberates. This activity will help them organize their ideas in preparation for the writing prompt on page 17 in the printed magazine and at the bottom of the digital story page.
Alternatively, have students choose a culminating task from the Choice Board, a menu of differentiated activities. Other delightfully creepy stories from the Scope archives that are perfect for Halloween:.
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Have students print out their newspapers at the end of the activity and create a class display. Choose the elements to create your own myth. Break the class into groups of three to four students.
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