ABSTRACT
Tell the class they are going to look at a picture of a famous painting by Pieter Brueghel. What do think the children are doing? How are they dressed? What does that tell us about when this picture was painted? Do children still do the same kinds of things?
1 OoR setting a historical context
Using this discussion, set the time and place of the drama, long ago, in a simpler age when families worked together to survive. The picture is a means to make that time shift and look at the implications for family life.