Vivian Hackney August 29, 2013 History Response Assignment

Part I---Questions

1. What makes a child not listen to their parents and do the opposite of what they say? 2. Why do you think bad things happen to characters that disobey the rules? 3. In what ways could the character have avoided the conflict that happened in this poem? 4. If you were the main character of this poem, what would you have done differently? Part II---Patterns 1. Children behaving badly a. Cruel Frederick (Struwwelpeter) b. The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches (Struwwelpeter) c. The Story of Little Suck-A-Thumb (Struwwelpeter) d. The Story if Fidgety Philip (Struwwelpeter) e. Improper Words (Cowslip) f. Susan and Patty (Cowslip) g. The Cruel Boy (Cowslip) h. The Idling Boy (Original Poems for Infant Minds) 2. Disturbing endings a. Cruel Frederick (Struwwelpeter) b. The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches (Struwwelpeter) c. The Story of the Inky Boys (Struwwelpeter) d. The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb (Struwwelpeter) e. The Story of Agustus, who would not have any soup (Struwwelpeter) f. The Story of Flying Robert (Struwwelpeter) g. The Giddy Girl (Daisy)

3. Well behaving children a. Politeness (Daisy) b. The Good Scholar (Daisy) c. The Good Boy (Daisy) d. The Fairing (Daisy) e. The Good Girl (Cowslip)