Here's the link to the Sleeping Bobby clip.
http://vimeo.com/22804378
Sleeping Bobby is the flip of Sleeping Beauty, and the girl "rescues" the boy. Prior to this part of the clip the kids were questioning why it was a kiss that rescued the sleeping prince - it seemed illogical. Why wasn't it courage or something more practical like splashing water on his face to wake him up? They were disappointed in the fact that Will and Mary Pope Osborn had the chance to turn Sleeping Beauty upside down and rewrite so the female character was not the victim, and yet, as one student put it, "They still made the girl do stupid things."
In this clip, the kids were questioning the way it ended with "Happily ever after" and trying to figure out why that was often the case in fairy tales, and what the idea of "normal" meant.
It's interesting to me that in both discussions you posted, your kids are really engaging with the question of what is normal. I think that maybe one way to build engagement and response in kids who are less apt to jump right in is to have continued themes like this that the class comes back to...so that then, kids who might not have had anything to say the first time, it stays in the back of their minds and they might feel more confident in future discussions.
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