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Monday, April 1, 2012

Monday, April 1, 2012. Do-Now VL: 0 Writer’s Notebook: Make a list of folk tales that you are very familiar with. These are stories in which you would feel comfortable reciting from memory. Folk tales include: legends, myths, fables, fairytales, tall tales. Fractured Folktales: .

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Monday, April 1, 2012

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  1. Monday, April 1, 2012 Do-Now VL: 0 • Writer’s Notebook: • Make a list of folk tales that you are very familiar with. • These are stories in which you would feel comfortable reciting from memory. • Folk tales include: legends, myths, fables, fairytales, tall tales

  2. Fractured Folktales:

  3. -Brief project break-down Example 1 • The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Example 2 • Little Miss Muffet • A nursery rhyme

  4. What did the author change? • Perspective? • Setting? • One or more major events? • Did the author make multiple changes?

  5. Original Version Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey. There came a big spider, He sat down beside her. And frightened Miss Muffet away!

  6. Little Miss Muffet A Fractured Nursery Rhyme

  7. Spider’s Bad Day: Frantically Miss Muffet searched for her tuffet. She was late for snack as usual. She knew she was sure to get into trouble, again.

  8. Spying her tuffet, and not paying any attention to her surroundings, she darted to her seat.

  9. Paying little heed to the surface of her tuffet, she failed to notice the friendly resident spider, spinning a web. As usual the spider was working diligently to rid the air of all the pesky little flies.

  10. She landed upon her seat with a thud. Instantly she was entangled in a web. Limbs were flailing in all directions. Her shouts about the mess and the injustice of it all, could be heard for miles around. Why did these things always happen to her?

  11. Looking around to survey the damage, she noticed the squashed spider. Several innocent bystanders who had witnessed the entire fiasco, began chanting Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!

  12. Instantly she fled the scene, to avoid the punishment due her. She quickly spread a rumor that an inconsiderate spider had attacked her and ruined her dinner. And to this very day, ladies still fear spiders.

  13. What did the author change? • Perspective? • Setting? • One or more major events? • Did the author make multiple changes?

  14. Story Web—Original Folk TaleSummary Breaking Down Cinderella

  15. What is our goal? • To write a fractured folktale based on the folktale outlined in your story web. The Fractured Folk Tale Project Outline • Original Folk Tale • Fractured Folk Tale • Peer and Teacher Reading/Editing • Final Draft

  16. CHOOSE YOUR STORY: begin Story Web and Reporter’s Formula Note: -We have already viewed 3 versions of Cinderella and The Three Little Pigs.-You may not use the Three Little Pigs or Cinderella.

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