Le avventure di PINOCCHIO

Carlo Collodi 1883

Istituto Comprensivo Lonate Pozzolo (Va) - ITALY

School Partnership Project 2008-2010Good behaviour – a rainbow that colours our life

Class 1 A-B-C-D

� Age: 11/12

� Students involved: 100

� Lessons per week: 1

� Subjects: Italian, English, French

Objective

•To analyze good and bad behaviour through traditional stories or classic novels of the literary tradition

Products• Written analysis and comments• Drawings and book covers• Table of Pinocchio’s behaviour and consequences• Exhibition• Comic strips and albums

Who is Pinocchio?

We have chosen “The adventures of Pinocchio”because Pinocchio is very much like us ... He is a stubborn and naughty marionette that never follows the good advise of his affectionate father Geppetto, of the loving Fairy or the wise Talking Cricket.He doesn’t like studying and prefers joining the Marionettes theatre or having fun with his friends at Toy Land.

Who is Pinocchio?

He follows his sudden wishes and tells lies but the consequences are a disaster: he loses all his money and is hanged to a oak tree; he sees his nose getting longer and longer; he turns into a donkey; he is swallowed by a shark...

Who is Pinocchio?

... But Pinocchio learns from his own mistakes and eventually he understands that Geppetto, the Fairy and the Cricket were right. After riscking his life so many times he takes care of his father, goes to school and works hard to buy him a new house. One fine day he wakes up and realizes he has become a real child!.

Step 1

We have learnt something about the author, the period and the setting

We have read the whole book

Step 2

We have discussed Pinocchio’s behaviourand we have found out examples of similar behaviour in our own experience

Step 3

We have watched the film “Le avventure di Pinocchio” (L. Comencini - 1972)

Procedure

Step 4

We have singled out examples of good and bad behaviour. We havefilled in a table about Pinocchio’s behaviour and its consequences

Step 5

We have found proverbs, sayings and metaphors about behaviour

Procedure

Step 6

We have selected and illustrated a significant episode

Step 7

We have looked for a suitable quotation or summaryto match our drawings. We have translated the sentences in English

Step 8

We have selected the best drawings and set anexhibition in the hall of the school

Procedure

Pinocchio and the consequences of his behaviour

And now let’s have a look at our work…

“Geppetto wants to make himself a Marionette that will dance, fence and turn somersaults. He fashions it and calls it Pinocchio.”

No sooner was it finished than it beganto laugh and poke fun at him.

He made the mouth…

Pinocchio falls asleepby the fire…

…He wakes up withall his feet burned off

Geppetto sells his jacket to buy PInocchio an ABC book so that he can go to school

... Pinocchio sells the ABC book and buys a ticket for the Marionette show

He risks to be burned on the fire by Fire Eater, the owner of the Marionette Theatre

Pinocchio wants to save his friend Arlecchino from death

Fire Eater gives him 5 gold pieces for his father Geppetto

Instead of going home, he follows the Fox and the Cat and buries his gold coins in the Field of Wonders

He loses all his money

... the fox and the cat hang him at a branch of the great oak tree

The Talking Cricket suggests Pinocchio to return home and give his coins to his poor old father... but Pinocchio doesn’t listen to him...

Any time Pinocchio tells a lie ...

... his nose grows longer and longer

He meets a big snake that seems dead. He steps over it ...

...but the snake springs up and makes him fall head over heel

Pinocchio is very hungry and steals some grapes in a field...

He is caught in a trap and a farmer forces him to be the watchdog to his henhouse

As a reward for his faithfulness, he is given his freedom back

He helps catch the thieves ...

He has fun at Toy Land instead of going to school

He turns into a donkey

Pinocchio is thrown into the sea and he is swallowed by a terrible shark

…and he is filled with a great and sudden happiness

In the shark’s body he finds his father Geppetto…

Pinocchio takes his father by the hand and tries to save him …

A tuna fish helps them to reach the shore

Pinocchio takes care of his old father, goes to school and works hard…

He becomes a real boy!

“…in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if

we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of

trouble”

The Talking Cricket

Pinocchio has learned an important lesson