 Your
Assignment #1: Answer these questions about "Pied
Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning, from activity above. Your
Assignment #2: In 1816 two German brothers names Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote
the story called "The Children of Hameln". Read the Brothers Grimm version of the
Pied Piper tale. List three things that are the same and three things that are
different from the Robert Browning Poem you read in the activity above. Use your own paper
or type your answers in a Word document. Don't forget to hand your paper in to your
teacher.
Your
Assignment #3: In 1944 an Austrian version of the Pied Piper story called "The
Rat Catcher from Magdalenagrund" was published. Read the story here http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#magdalenagrund
and list three things that are the same and three things that are different from the
Robert Browning poem above. Use your own paper or type your answers in a Word document.
Don't forget to hand your paper in to your teacher.
Your
Assignment #4: Englishman Joseph Jacobs published a story in 1894 called "The
Pied Piper of Franceville" in a book called More English Fairy
Tales Read the story here http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#franchville
and list three things that are the same and three things that are different from the
Robert Browning poem above. Use your own paper or type your answers in a Word document.
Don't forget to hand your paper in to your teacher.
Your
Assignment #5: There is even Chinese version of the Pied Piper tale called "Ma
Hsiang Rids Hangchow of Rats". Read the story
here http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hameln.html#hangchow
and list three things that are the same and three things that are different from
the Robert Browning poem above. Use your own paper or type your answers in a Word
document. Don't forget to hand your paper in to your teacher.
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Pied Piper Activity: In 1842 Robert Browning wrote a poem
called "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." You are going to read the poem and
look at the pictures by a famous British illustrator named Kate Greenaway. After you have
read the poem you will reading the same story from other authors and other countries and
interpret what you read. Click here to read the poem and see the illustrations. http://www.adifferentplace.org/piedpiper2.htm
You can
see the original Robert Browning "Pied Piper of Hamelin"
illustrated by Kate Greenaway at this site: 