Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends

Elements of a Fairy Tale

• Special beginning and/or ending words - Once upon a time...and they lived happily ever after.
• Good character
• Evil character
• Royalty and/or a castle usually present
• Magic happens
• Problem and a Solution
• Things often happen in "threes" or "sevens"

   

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  Activity One- Play a few games with fairytale characters. 

FairyTale Games

Cinderella Shoe Match Up

Cinderella Hidden Frogs

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Porridge Toss Game

The Three Little Pigs - Noggin

The Three Little Cyber Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood - Matching Game

Little Read Riding Hood - Word Search

Activity 2: Create your own fairy tale by filling in the blanks

http://www.quest4camelot.com/games/fairytale.html

Acivity 3: Compare and contrast

So Many Cinderella's

The Princess and the Golden Shoes

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  What Makes a Story a Fairy Tale?

   

   

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•  Pick 5 of your favorite Fairy Tales to reread. You can find them here or here.

   and more...

  Jack and the beanstalk http://www.jackandthebeanstalk.ca/

  http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/ written stories

  http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main Grims Fairy Tales on line-has audio

   

  http://hca.gilead.org.il/ Hans Christian Anderson

   

  http://www.classicfairytales.com/en/main animaed fairy tales

   

   

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  Download the document below and put a check mark under each idea that you read in your story. You will find some  themes that happen over and over again in each story.

  fairy Tales.doc

   

   

  3rd

  Now we get to have a little fun

   

   

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  Project Choices

   

  Write a fractured Fairly tale

  Click here. 

   

  

   

   

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• Write your own Fairy Tale

  Include:

   

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  Setting

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  Characters

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  Problem/Conflict

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  Main Events

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  Conclusion

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  Complete the Fairy Tale Web Quest

  http://www-ma.beth.k12.pa.us/jhoke/jhwebquest/jhwebquest.htm

   

   

   

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  Write a  Book Report

• Click below to get a copy of the book report form

  fairy tale book report.doc

   

   

   

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• Myths

  A myth  is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form. The active beings in myths are generally gods and heroes.

   

  Brainstorming Machine

   

  

   

  Use the brainstorming machine at the link below to help you write a myth of your own.

  http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/mythmachine.htm

   

   

  Ancient Myths

  http://www.otherplane.com/am/amindex.htm

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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