80 pages • 2 hours read
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Little Prince
Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1943A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Activities
Use these activities to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.
ACTIVITY 1: “The Allegory of the _____”
An allegory is a clever way of crafting insightful questions about what it means to be human. The power of an allegory is that it can teach life lessons and morals without making the reader feel like they are being lectured. In this activity, you will create your own allegory.
- Step 1: Complete the following table to brainstorm what allegorical symbols might best highlight each universal issue:
UNIVERSAL QUESTION or ISSUE / ALLEGORICAL SYMBOL
Climate change
Social justice
Education reform
Human purpose on Earth
Everlasting love
Life after death
Forming identity
- Step 2: Choose the format of your allegory. Will you write a story? Will you perform a skit? Will you draw a picture book?
- Step 3: Prepare your allegorical story for the class.
Teaching Suggestion: In this activity, students should think of their own life to make allegories more relatable and understandable. The planning table can be student choice, or the teacher can add more rows with more questions. Teachers can further enhance the activity by adding a column in which students pose and/or answer a question about the topic provided.
ACTIVITY 2: “Musical Allegories”
The little prince and the pilot are influenced by the characters the prince meets on his journey. As a major theme in this novella is The Responsibilities of Love and Friendship, it’s worth taking a closer look at the way humans construct meaning through their encounters with others.
In this activity, you will create a musical in which you parallel each character with a song that best exemplifies their contribution to the text. Create a Google Slide or Power Point presentation in which you devote each slide to each character. Each slide will identify their characterizations and link to the song you’ve chosen.
Character / Characterizations / Quote / Song
The Pilot
The Little Prince
The Fox
The Rose
The Snake
The King
The Vain Man
The Drunkard
The Businessman
The Lamplighter
The Geographer
The Railway Switchman
The Salesclerk
