Charlotte's web

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1. Who is this Didactic Unit directed to? 2
2. INTRODUCTION: 2
3. OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT: 2
4. CONTENTS: 3
5. SUMMARY OF THE STORY: 3
6. STORY-TELLING: 4







1. Who is this Didactic Unit directed to?


AGE: 7-8
STAGE: Primary.
CYCLE: First.
YEAR: Second year of Primary.
UNIT PLANNED FOR… 2 Weeksapproximately.




2. INTRODUCTION:


I have created this didactic unit about Charlotte’s Web book because I think it is a story that can show many important things to children. Not only it is useful to help pupils learn about the farm and its typical animals but also treats important values like friendship, justice and generosity.


3. OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT:


The objectives that I presenthere are a guide for showing the most important aspects referred to the book and its contents. Children should manage to reach all of them in order to develop all the skills that are required.

Identify the animals and the objects and the locations that you can find on a farm .
Recognise the four stages of the life cycle (birth, growth, reproduction, death).
Know the different products thatfarm animals produce (cow-milk, sheep-wool…)
Name the different members that are in a family and know their relationship among them.
Show writing, artistic and listening skills.
Identify the characters of the story, the relationship between them, their personality and their physical characteristics.
Recognise the four seasons and their characteristics.
Know the most important vocabulary ofthe story.
Have a positive and respectful attitude during the story-telling and the activities that we do in class.
Understand how to order the different sequences of the story.
Develop logical and mathematical skills with the activities.

4. CONTENTS:


Animals, objects and locations of the farm.
The Life Cycle: birth, growth, reproduction and death.
The Seasonal Cycle: winter, spring,summer and autumn.
Products that farm animals produce.
Members of Fern’s family.
Characters of the story: their physical and personal appearance.
Vocabulary of the story.
Characteristics of the spiders.


5. SUMMARY OF THE STORY:

Charlotte's Web is a children's novel written by the famous American author E. B. White. The story is about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being killedthanks to an intelligent spider called Charlotte.

The book begins when a farmer, John Arable, discovers one of his piglets is so weak and decides to kill it. His daughter Fern, begs him to let it live and Mr. Arable let her to have the little piglet as a pet and she names it Wilbur. He lives a few weeks with Fern and then his father decides to sell it to her uncle (Homer Zuckerman) because he istoo big. Although Fern visits him at the Zuckerman’s' farm as often as she can, Wilbur feels so lonely. Suddenly, he meets a gray spider (Charlotte) that wants to be his friend.


Wilbur soon becomes a member of the community of animals who live in Zuckerman's farm. Then, the old sheep of this farm, tells Wilbur that he is going to be killed and eaten at Christmas. He asks Charlotte for helpand she has the idea of writing words in her web to make people think that Wilbur is a magic and wise pig.


Thanks to Charlotte's efforts, and with the help of the rat Templeton, Wilbur lives and goes to the county fair with Charlotte and wins a prize. At the end of her natural life cycle, Charlotte dies at the fair. Wilbur promises Charlotte bringing home with him her sac of eggs and he takescare of them until the little spiders are born. Finally, most of them leave to make their own lives elsewhere, except for three: Joy, Aranea, and Nellie, who stay at Zuckerman’s farm as friends of Wilbur, the brave pig. It is a fantastic story that shows important values like true friendship, justice and loyalty.



6. STORY-TELLING:

In this part I am going to explain how I will tell the...