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AGUSAN DEL SUR COLLEGE, INC.

Bayugan City, 8502 CARAGA Philippines


Telefax (085) 231-2150
TEACHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

NAME: Margie P. Ybañez YEAR/COURSE: First Year, BEED

MODULE 6
APPLICATION
Directions: This activity focuses on a story involving the interaction of family members.
Choose a story you want to use for this activity. It can be from a story you have read or
a movie or “telenovela” that you watched or plan to watch. Use the matrix below to
relate the characters to Piaget’s stage of cognitive development.

Title of Story/Movie: The Willoughbys (2020)


SUMMARY:
 The Affable Tale of an Old-Fashioned Family and a BEASTLY Baby
 A family story for anyone who ever wanted to get away from their family.
 
The family at the center of the animated movie “The Willoughbys” is not a happy
one. Father and Mother love each other very much, but that affection does not extend to
their children, Tim, Jane and twins both named Barnaby, likely because their parents
didn’t care to think of a fourth name. A Cheshire-like blue cat voiced over fulfills the role
of narrator and sometimes pet, talking only to the audience in his signature droll tone.
After much neglect, the Willoughby children decide to send their parents away on a
dangerous trip that would hopefully leave them orphaned. Luckily for the young
Willoughbys, they have a sweet-natured nanny named Linda and a kindly but
intimidating Willy Wonka-esque candy maker named Commander Melanoff on their
side.  
The Willoughbys appear to be a perfectly normal family from the outside. Two
parents who greatly love each other and their four children. The problem: Mr. and Mrs.
Willoughby never wanted children and have no extra love or tolerance for them. When
these four kids grow up, they determine they would be better off living on their own. This
is overall a fairly heavy kid's movie. It deals with child neglect and abuse, abandonment,
and death.
 
If that sounds maybe too bleak, don’t worry: many children’s stories have
followed precocious youngsters escaping mean caretakers or unhappy homes. James
uses a Giant Peach to float away from his cruel aunts. Little Orphan Annie moves from
a grubby orphanage to the palatial home of her newly adopted father, Daddy Warbucks.

Fortunately, with its candy-coated shell and visual style, “The Willoughbys” never
gets too serious or scary. The movie practically sparkles in scenes at Melanoff’s candy
factory, where the rainbow motif is woven throughout the space and even onto
Melanoff’s commander jacket, which is topped off with candy buttons and cupcakes on
his shoulders. 

The Willoughbys have shocking reddish-pink hair that looks like it was made out
of yarn, visually tying the various members of the family together, and frightfully skinny
frames that, with the exception of “mushroom-shaped” twins, almost no one else outside
their home shares. “The Willoughbys” uses those details as opportunities for visual
jokes. Clouds look like fluffy candy floss that float by a candy-powered vehicle and the
children’s yarn-like hair can get messy and unkempt.
Based on the book by Lois Lowry, “The Willoughbys” often breaks out of its
confines of impossible situations through fantasy. There’s a speedy baby with a sweet
tooth who defies the laws of gravity, a dirigible cooked up in a candy factory and a
talking cat. They make the Willoughby parents comically neglectful as if they forgot they
had four kids in the house or overreact to the smallest of disturbances. The parents’
carelessness also makes life difficult for any unlucky adults who cross their paths on
their trip. The movie’s other villains are the Orphan Services, who with their black-out
wide glasses and sharp suits, look like the Men in Black had been taken over by skinny
aliens. But of course, the heart of the story belongs to the kids, especially Tim, who has
to learn to trust grown-ups again.
For all its candy-colored silliness, “The Willoughbys” is a surprisingly sweet story
about chosen families. The halls of the Willoughby’s old-mannered mansion celebrate
the relatives and mustached ancestors who came before them, but the Willoughbys of
today have fallen far from their storied pasts and strong family ties, leaving the children
to make up their own. Sometimes, the best families are those who chose to be a part of
your life. It’s a message both timely and timeless told through a whimsical story fit for
most children of any age. 

Characters Piagetian Connection


Description

Father & -It shows that not all parents know how or even want to be parents.
Mother For the kids that don't see this reality represented to them often in
cartoon style it's refreshing. It has a great message. Thought
provoking and can potentially start up that they never wanted
children and have no extra love or tolerance for them

Children Tim, Jane and Barnaby A&B


-       The siblings then embark on their own highflying adventure to find
the true meaning of family and convinced they'd be better off raising
themselves because of their selfishness on vacation and didn’t care
about them.

Other Melanoff’s commander - One character refers to another character


character as a "sugar daddy" as the character worked in a candy factory
 
Nanny- It shows how her rule being thoughtful and sometimes funny
nanny who taught Willoughbys children to become more independent
and have good manners in and outside the house.
Baby- It shows how hyperactive his/her age is.  

The Cat- The voice over, narrator and sometimes pet in the movie.

REFLECTION

 From the Module on Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, I


learned that….

Human cognitive development occurs during the child development period which


takes place over a relatively short period of time and involves a great deal of growth. His
theory focuses not only on understanding how children acquire knowledge, but also on
understanding the nature of intelligence. This means that children take an active role in
their learning process, perform experiences, make observations, interact with the world
around them, continually add new knowledge, build upon existing knowledge, and adapt
previously held ideas to accommodate new information in order to learn and understand
how the world works. It is also involving processes based upon actions and later
progresses to changes in mental operations acquire knowledge through sensory
experiences and manipulating objects and ability to think about abstract ideas and
situations on how mental and physical actions are involved in understanding and
knowing that help us to interpret and understand the world. In addition, one of the most
important elements to remember of this theory is that it takes the view that creating
knowledge and intelligence is an inherently active process.

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