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TITLE:  The "Real" Fairy Tales

AUTHOR:  Sharon Norris, Holy Trinity School;
         Okarche, OK

GRADE LEVEL:  5 - 8

OVERVIEW:   Help students develop their imagination and
writing skills by rewriting fairy tales and other short
stories they all know.

PURPOSE  : Students will be involved in creative
writing but will be guided by a well-known story.

OBJECTIVE(s):  The students will choose a fairy tale
and rewrite it from a different point of view.
Students will be involved in creative writing.
Students will learn the differences that may exist in
point of view.

RESOURCES:  Copies of fairy tales and nursery rhymes

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
1.   Read to the students the story, "The Real Story of
     the Three Little Pigs" or write your own version
     of a fairy tale in which the "bad guy" actually
     was just a victim of circumstances.  Example:  The
     wolf really didn't go to the pigs' houses to eat
     them.  He just wanted to borrow some sugar for his
     mother's birthday cake and he sneezed and their
     houses' fell.  And of course he couldn't let a
     good pig dinner go to waste.
2.   Have each student choose a fairy tale with a "bad
     guy" and rewrite it, telling the story from the
     "bad guy's" point of view.  Some examples are
     "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears", "Little Red Riding
     Hood", "Billy Goats Gruff".
3.   Have the students type their stories on the
     computer and then illustrate them.

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER:  Take the stories and bind them
together and pass them around to the younger grades.
Or have the students pair up with the younger children
to read them their stories.  They could also act out
some of their stories for the other classes.