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Discussion of Jack and the Beanstalk (Transcript)
In this clip, we are introduced to a teacher and her students involved in a Shared Inquiry discussion of "Jack and the Beanstalk." The teacher begins with an interpretive question.
Leader: What I would like you to do is read it aloud with me right now. Ready? All right.
Students: (Reading aloud from the story text) Why does the ogre’s wife help Jack two times?
Leader: Now I would like you to think about this. And from what you remember from reading Jack several times, write down your answer. Why does she help him not once, but two times? Why does this woman who has boiled boys in the past help out Jack.
(Pause as students write.)
Leader: All right, now why does she help him out?
Student #1: The question says why did she help him the second time. Probably the third time she would try to serve him to the ogre.
Student #2: The third time she did try to serve him to the ogre, but they couldn’t find him. They didn’t look in the one place he was hiding.
Leader: Do you think she was being nice then?
Student #2: Before she was being very nice to him, but then she discovered he was taking the stuff from the ogre so she tried to get him so the ogre could eat him.
Leader: Why would she do that?
Student #2: Because if he found out now then he would be really upset with her and he might try to eat her.
Leader: Who would?
Student #2: The ogre might want to eat her because he’d be really upset because he would know that she was helping Jack.
Leader: (Calls on another student.)
Student #3: I agree, but I think he wouldn’t have gotten mad and eaten her.
Leader: Is there something in the story that makes you think that she is being nice?
Student #4: When she lets Jack have breakfast and she helps him to hide.
Student #1: I think she was just tricking him. It was just like a big trap.
Leader: What was the big trap?
Student #1: Well, the first time he came and she let him take the gold. The second she let him, too, but the third time was probably so they could take him.
Leader: Is there something in the story that makes you think that?
Student #2: She says hide in the oven so the next time she says hide in the oven, she can just turn it on.
Leader: To a student who hasn’t spoken yet) Do you have an idea before we go?
Student #6: She just gave him food so she could trap him.
Leader: You think she just wanted to trap him. If she just wanted to trap him, why didn’t she just turn the oven on the first time? He’s right there in the oven. Why didn’t she just turn it on?
Student #6: She didn’t know.
Leader: Didn’t know what?
Student #6: She didn’t know that he stole the money and the hen.
Leader: The first time if she wanted to trap him, why does she give him the food?
Student #6: Because she felt sorry for him, I guess.
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