Set in England, Black Beauty tells us the details surrounding his birth, and his perception of humans, since he has various owners throughout his life. While some of these proprietors are caring and compassionate, others prove to be cruel and crude to the vulnerable Beauty, often placing him in life-threatening situations -- which he may or may not survive
Movie: Black Beauty-Warner Bros.
Other related horse movies: Sea Biscuit
Black Stalion
PBS has these two shows check for show times
Nature horses
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/horses/
The wild horses of Mangolia
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/mongolia/
Reading: Black Beauty
Supplies: Have handy for any unit Study: Globe, Computer Internet, Enclopedia, Notebooks, Paper/Pens, books checked out of library concerning subject
Geography: England – Have children find it on the globe, or learn more about England
Yahooligan Countrys http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/around_the_world/countries/
Yahooligan States http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Around_the_World/U_S__States/
Time in different countrys http://www.worldtimezone.com/
World Climate http://www.worldclimate.com/
History: Mid- to late-nineteenth-century-What else
happened during this time?
Check out pages like
Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Mr Dowlings http://www.mrdowling.com/
Writing: Have them write two paragraphs or book report
on what they liked and didn’t like about the movie how they would do things
differently if they wrote it or directed it.
Math: Basic addition & Subtraction-Have them
count how many Owners he had in the movie and subtract it on how many were the
good Owners.
For older kids have them do the distance between a place he had been in England to another place, if not sure just guess the actual place try to use multiplication and division. Also convert it to Metric the distance. Discuss how horses are measured by hands. How much oats/hay does a horse eat? How much in a month.
Math word problem for Middle school/Highschool http://www.funtestiq.com/numbers/horses.shtml
Online Math problems with horses http://www.mysticmath.com/article1003.html
Life learning lessons/bible: Discuss-Cruelty, Ignorance, Loyalty, Friendship, Neglect, Instinct Check out word search bible site such ashttp://www.blueletterbible.org/search.html#search
Science: Learn the anatomy of a horse http://www.circlekhorsepavilion.com/circlek/horseparts.html for printable
Arts and Craft: Crayola has great ideas and not just
coloring pages
If the link doesn’t go there try going to
Crayola.com and put in subject area “horses”
http://www.crayola.com/search/results.cfm?keywords=horses
Foods: Make something from Marilees
International foods site
Extra Discussion Questions or to use as a Quiz:
What was the name of Black Beauty’s mothers name? Answer: Duchess
Where was he born? Answer: Meadow-large pleasant meadow
What country did it take place
in? Can you find it on a globe? About what century? Answer: Mid- to late-nineteenth-century
England.
What was the names of his two horse friends?
Answer: Ginger & Merrylegs
What food did they give him to calm him down when they were saddling him?Answer: Oats!
How did he save his Masters life?Answer: By not going across the bridge like they wanted him too. He’s instinct’s told him not too.
Why did he get really sick? Answer: The boy didn’t take proper care of him after the storm and didn’t cover him with blanket, gave him cold water to drink instead of warm. When your chilled don’t you cover up and drink something warm? Do you think it’s the same for a horse?
Who was his
first Master? Were they good to him or cruel? Why did he have to leave them?Answer: Squire Gordon from Birtwick Park. Yes they were good to him. The Squires wife got sick and had to live in a warmer climate.
Were his second Master & Misteress good to him or cruel? Why did he leave them? Did they do anything to him that you thought was not right just for fashion?
Answer: No they were not nice to him. A man named Reuben ran him without a shoe and he fell throwing Reuben off and cutting his knees. The place was called Earlshall he had to be sold after that because he was not beautiful to them any longer.
Do you think his being rented out by his next New Master wore Black Beauty out? Answer: He was rented out to people that didn’t know how to properly ride a horse, tight reins, driving him too hard, whipped him too much, not watching where they are going, not properly attending to him with grooming and feeding him.
When he worked as a London cab horse what did the girl of his Master Jeremiah Barker do to him the first day so he would look pretty? Answer: Braided his hair
Why was it a hard life being a London cab horse? What was his dislikes about it? Answers: The cobblestones were hard on a horse’s foot; Very crowded he didn’t see any grass or trees around. Sometimes people were inconsiderate and would make him and his Master wait for hours in the rain or cold for them. It was then when he realized that people could be cruel to other people not just horses.
Did Black beauty ever find the boy named? Was he saved? Answer: Yes! Joe Green
Find out the proper way to feed a horse?
Find out more about the Author Sewell Anna
Show how horses are used today to help humans heal
Related
Links:
Horse Country filled with Quizzes and info on horses
Horse and History
http://users.erols.com/mmaidens/
Cyber museum of Horse fossile
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/fhc/fhc.htm
A history of Horses online visit
http://www.imh.org/imh/imhmain.html
Author
http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/sewell.html
Classic book shelf
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/anna_sewell/black_beauty/
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