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Charlotte’s Web And The County Fair

by Summer Minor

Around here summer time means fair season. There is a small traveling carnival that visits several towns in the areas. hitting ours in later summer/early fall. Between the over priced rides, tons of junk food, and pens of animals stinking in the heat it’s part magic and part nightmare. Sure the fair is a far cry from the amazing attractions county fairs used to be, but in a kid’s eyes this place is spectacular.

It never fails that every year the adults complain that it’s even worse than last year, and every year the kids mange to sweet talk far too much money out of us on rides and games.

Over the weekend I was digging around a history teaching site that a friend mentioned I should check out. There are a bunch of great little lessons on various parts of US history. One lesson that really struck out is this one of the book Charlotte’s Web and the traditional county fair. The original lesson plan is only for download so I saved it to my Good Docs section to share with anyone who can’t download it. The link should be open to anyone without needing to login, but if you get an error let me know.

CharlottesWeb.jpgCharlotte’s Web was one of my favorite stories as kid. How could you not love a book with talking animals and an amazing spider? Today I love how un-sugar coated the story is. Death is a part of the storyline, not in an explosive dramatic way, but in a normal sense. Yes, Charlotte kills the bugs, but she has to to live. yes she dies, but her children live and move on. Sure Wilber is trying to avoid death, but that in itself share a little piece of farm life (where does your bacon come from?).

I think I’m going to see about adding Charlotte’s Web to our summer reading list, hopefully just in time for the county fair to come here. Anyone else?

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Posted in Lesson plans, Literature Based on June 2nd, 2008

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2 Responses to “Charlotte’s Web And The County Fair”

  1. Sherry Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 am

    Thanks for the link, Summer. We have Charlotte’s Web in our plans for next school year… but maybe we’ll sub another book from our list and read it over the summer when all of the little fairs are going on. Hmm…

  2. Princess Momma Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 am

    I had planned on this being a bed-time read starting this fall, but maybe we’ll start it now instead. I think my girls will love it.

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