The Goose Girl: An Analysis

Fairy tales and the telling of fairy tales cannot be traced to an exact date, but tracings do show that they have been continued to spread from generation to generation for over a hundred years. They were made to set an example, mark an occasion, warn about dangers, and even communicate knowledge. Though many involve magic and fantasy worlds that people tended to actually believe, these people are no different from the people today who believe in miracles or even religion.They have been alive long enough to go through many time periods. The fact that fairy tales do have such a history, supports they would be a great teaching tool in classrooms. Although for younger children fairy tales can lead to unrealistic expectations dude to the content …show more content…
The Goose Girl, for instance, is a Grimm’s Brother fairy tale that could be used in health classrooms to teach young girls about stepping into womanhood. The story tells about a princess who is set to marry a prince, but along the way to her new life the princess loses a handkerchief that her mother gave her with three drops of blood on it. After losing her handkerchief, she instantly became weak and her maid took advantage of that and tricked the prince into thinking she was the princess. At first the story may be seen as just another fairy tale to teach children the moral of everyone gets a happily ever after, but once unpacked, this story shows the scary transitioning of going from a girl to a woman. The handkerchief is a representation of a menstrual cycle which marks the beginning of becoming a woman for girls. Typically a fifth grader starting her first day of school is different from a seventh grader starting her first day ranging from physical appearance to mental thoughts. In middle school the …show more content…
It is a story of a Native American man who sets up to paint some white flowers he think are bland. While painting, two birds kept swinging down getting paint on their feathers to create a different color arch in the sky that he called a rainbow. This lesson could be used in November because it known as National American Heritage month. During the month, art classes could spend a portion of the class talking about the the culture Native Americans had relating to art. The students could make their own paints just as the native american man did in the fairytale. They could then use feathers to paint an imagine of what they see when hearing the story. Not only would this be an amusing things for the students but also an educational lesson