School Partnership Project 2008-2010
Good behaviour – a rainbow that colours our life
Le avventure di
PINOCCHIO
Carlo Collodi 1883
Istituto Comprensivo Lonate Pozzolo (Va) - ITALY
Class 1 A-B-C-D
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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!.
Procedure
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 behaviour
and 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 have
filled 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 summary
to match our drawings. We have translated the
sentences in English
Step 8
We have selected the best drawings and set an
exhibition in the hall of the school
And now let’s have a look at our work…
Pinocchio and the
consequences of his behaviour
“Geppetto wants to make himself a Marionette that will dance,
fence and turn somersaults. He fashions it and calls it Pinocchio.”
He made the mouth…
No sooner was it finished than it began
to laugh and poke fun at him.
Pinocchio falls asleep
by the fire…
…He wakes up with
all 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 Talking
Cricket
suggests
Pinocchio to
return home
and give his
coins to his
poor old
father...
but Pinocchio
doesn’t listen
to him...
... the fox
and the cat
hang him at
a branch of
the great oak
tree
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
He helps catch the thieves ...
As a reward for his faithfulness, he is given his freedom back
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
In the shark’s body he finds his father Geppetto…
…and he is filled with a great and sudden happiness
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!
Pinocchio has learned an important lesson
“…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