Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.
Discussion of skits.
Objective: To discuss the experience, and to prepare the children to understand and enjoy the story, The Island of Skog.
Activity: Teacher will lead the discussion: How did it feel to be a mouse? a cat? When you were watching the skits, could you tell who was a cat, and who were mice? Which qualities were mouse-like? cat-like? Was the cat always the winner, loser? Did the mice ever work together? What problems might a cat make for mice? What other animals might present problems to mice?
