Film commentary: Sewing Circle
A film about altruism, the selfless feeling of love for others, but also its opposite, selfishness.To feel the feelings of a friend and to show generosity without expecting anything in return.
Questioning the film: Sewing Circle
To understand the story, the theme, to express one's sensibility and to exercise one's critical thinking skills."To love is not to look at each other, it is to look together in the same direction."
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"We must learn to live together as brothers, otherwise we will all die together like idiots."
Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968)
Before watching the short film, point out that the box at the beginning of the film is marked "Sewing set".
1 Who are the two characters who come out of the sewing box?
A sheep and a nesting doll.
2 What about the character who is crying at the beginning of the film?
He is a chick.
3 Why is the chick crying?
He has a hole in his dress.
4 What is the shape of the hole?
It is a square.
5 Why is the child not satisfied at the beginning?
Because he is offered a round and a triangle and not a square.
6 So the nesting doll climbs onto the sheep and flies off to help a new person. Who is this person?
Clarify that the word help in second 40 means "help" or "help me".
She is the queen of the ants.
7 Why is the ant crying?
She wants to put on shoes but her feet are shaped like tentacles.
8 What is the nesting doll doing then?
She decides to make braids with the tentacles.
9 Why is the giant in the sky sad?
He would like to be able to smell the flowers but has no nose.
10 The next character is a triangle.What does it lack?
It has no heart.
11 What does the nesting doll decide to do?
She glues a cloth heart to it but it doesn't work so she decides to give it her real heart.
12 What happens then?
A character with a triangle-shaped head appears.
13 Why does the doll faint?
She can no longer live without her heart.
14 What does the triangle character decide to do?
He goes in search of a new heart and asks for help from the characters that the doll had previously helped.Everyone contributes: the giant gives a pinch of stars, the ant a bit of earth and the chick some feathers.
15 Does this recipe work?
No, because the triangle character has not given anything.So he gives his hat and the doll comes back to life.
16 What could be proposed as a moral of this film?
Open answer / debate.
Download in PDF the pedagogical activities of the film
Created with the support of the French Ministry of Education and the CNC.Viewing of the film with the family, pedagogical activities with the parents at home and with the teachers in class.
Geometric shapes (Mathematics) (Cycle 1)
Pedagogical activities proposed by Dgedie from the Juliettes school based on the film Sewing Circle.
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