Fairy Tales

The Five types of stories: (Copy into book) Dreamtime stories: Stories that explained the origin of the world, people and all that make up the world. For example Aboriginal stories. e.g:   Myths: Myths can be changed stories of real historical events and are usually known to be fake or false stories. Fables: Are stories that illustrates a moral lesson. Nursery rhymes: Short children's rhyming songs Fairy tales:

What is a fairy tale? With your partner, brainstorm in your book: What is a fairy-tale??

What is a Fairy-tale? Fairy-tales are stories from the past. They have no known author, and have been passed from generation to generation through story-telling. Most fairy-tales have many different versions, as each person who tells the story, changes some details. Copy this down into your workbook

With your partner write down as many fairy-tales as you can think of With your partner write down as many fairy-tales as you can think of. Write these down in your workbook.

What fairy tales do you know? Cinderella Jack and the Beanstalk Aladdin Snow White Sleeping Beauty Goldilocks Hansel and Gretel The Gingerbread Man The Billy Goats Gruff

What do most fairy tales have in common? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbyWUx D5HD8

They are set in an imaginary land. They have either very poor or very rich characters. They may use animals as characters. The story has some morals: ie, we can learn something from the story. They tell us how people used to live in the past.

Can you think of more commonalities?

Task: 1) Choose three fairy tales and summarise the story in at least 4-5 sentences. 2) Write down your favourite fairy tale(s). 3)Why is this your favourite one? Explain. (1 paragraph) 4) Go through your ‘what do most fairy tales have in common?’ notes and write down some of the common elements that you chose in number one.

Story mountain Most fairy-tales follow a pattern:

Opening The opening is the beginning of the story. It introduces the characters and the setting. Most stories begin like these: Once upon a time … There once was a … A long time ago … Long long ago … Can you think of a different opening?

Build-up The build-up starts to introduce a storyline for the main character. More characters will be introduced, or a new setting. It may involve giving some clues to what might happen later in the story.

Dilemma The dilemma can also be known as the problem. Each fairy-tale has some sort of problem which needs to be overcome. What story problems can you think of?

Resolution The resolution is where the story starts to solve the problem. Most resolutions involve thinking sensibly about the problem, or involving a new character that can help.

Ending The ending is always happy in fairy-tales. You usually find out what lesson the main character has learned. The story describes what the characters lives will now be like. And they all lived happily ever after All’s well that ends well

Task: Copy the story mountain down into your workbooks. 2) Briefly describe each stage. 3) Copy the following table into your workbook. Read the 5 slides again and come up with your own examples. Rodda-2 examples, Myers- 3 examples, Tolkien- 4 We have given you an example. Snow White Example: Opening Happy and beautiful girl. Build-up Step mother doesn’t like Snow White (Mirror, mirror) Dilemma Banishes Snow White into the forest Resolution Finds the 7 dwarfs and makes friends with them Ending Falls in love with Prince