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This document outlines a 5-day lesson plan for teaching fairy tales to students. Day 1 introduces fairy tales through animated videos and a short reading of Sleeping Beauty. Day 2 has students do a jigsaw activity where they read different fairy tales in small groups. Day 3 wraps up the jigsaw and has students begin working on a project. Days 4-5 have students work on and present their projects. Supplemental readings are provided to give more historical and cultural context for several fairy tales, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, and Cinderella. The goal is for students to understand how fairy tales have influenced societies over time.

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Links and Things

This document outlines a 5-day lesson plan for teaching fairy tales to students. Day 1 introduces fairy tales through animated videos and a short reading of Sleeping Beauty. Day 2 has students do a jigsaw activity where they read different fairy tales in small groups. Day 3 wraps up the jigsaw and has students begin working on a project. Days 4-5 have students work on and present their projects. Supplemental readings are provided to give more historical and cultural context for several fairy tales, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, and Cinderella. The goal is for students to understand how fairy tales have influenced societies over time.

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Bailey:

Intro Video/ Hype Them Up: ​What Makes a Hero


This video is engaging given it’s animated style and the way that it compares
modern-day texts to the idea of the “hero”, which can help to get students excited to
start making these connections to the stories they’re going to be reading and
creating.

Intro text:​ ​The Sleeping Beauty​(Wilfred Owen) (English)


This text is rather short and follows a story that most students would most likely
already be familiar with given that there is a Disney movie attached to the archetype of
Sleeping Beauty. This text would be used to introduce students to the way that a story
that we know can appear in a variety of places with slight differences in the story, while
still holding the same ideas. This is also a rather modern version so the students
shouldn’t feel too intimidated by the text’s writing style.

Small Group Jigsaw Texts:


These texts were chosen so that each pairing of students can have at least one story
similar to their own that they can see parallels in post-reading. Each story is less than
four pages so that each group has an ample amount of time to read and discuss their
stories within their pairs before sharing with the group. Some stories follow the more
“traditional” route of the story we are familiar with while others take the story in
dramatically different directions, so each story serves its own purpose.
Little Red: ​Little Red Riding Hood​ (Pages 1 and 2) (Charles Perrault) (French)
The Tale of the Tiger Woman​ (Pages 5-9) (Huang Chih-chun) (Chinese)
Bluebeard: ​Mr. Fox​(Joseph Jacobs) (English)
Mast-Truan​ (Pueblo Native)
Cinderella: ​Rhodopis​(Pages 55-56) (Egyptian)
Yeh-Shen​ (Page 7) (Chinese)
Animals: ​The Deer and the Jaguar Share a House​ (Brazil)
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal​ (India)
Why the Parrot Repeats Man's Words​ (Thailand)
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey​ (Greek​)

Erin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIFOlQU56FY​ (History of Fairytales video)
This video is engaging and a great way to present students with a brief, yet informative
idea of how fairytales and the art of storytelling has influenced societies and cultures
throughout generations. This video will provide students with a better understanding of
how these literary forms can be used as a way to understand history on a deeper level.

Supplemental Intro Text:​ (Cultural impacts of ​Sleeping Beauty​)


https://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=ellipsis
This article is a great supplemental tool to use alongside the version of ​Sleeping Beauty
that was going to be used earlier in the lesson. This source provides a great analysis
behind this particular fairytale and how it has changed and adapted to become more
relevant to the cultures and societies it is being represented in. This source is a tool that
can be used by students to connect both their English/Language Arts skills and their
historical skills as well.

Supplemental Intro Text:​ (​Sleeping Beauty​ around the world)


https://serendipstudio.org/exchange/lethologica/sleeping-beauties-and-evolving-stories-cross-cu
lteral-examination
This source corresponds with the one prior to it. This one allows the reader to go more in
depth with the various versions of ​Sleeping Beauty​ found throughout the world. The
article is a great way for students to visualize and understand how stories can change
over time and what variables may influence the differences different cultures view the
same story or fairytale.

Supplemental Little Red Text:​


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131129-little-red-riding-hood-folktale-tehrani
-anthropology-science/#close
This article by ​National Geographic​ provides students with a historical analysis of the
origins of ​Little Red Riding Hood​ around the world. In addition to being a source to allow
students to reach deeper into the history and cultural impacts of this fairytale, the link
also provides students with visual representations of the story. This allows students to
understand the story from a visual standpoint in addition to reading and other literacy
skills.

Supplemental Bluebeard Text:​ (The History of Bluebeard)


https://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/bluebeard-history/
Like the supplemental text for the story of ​Little Red​, this source provides students with
information on the history of ​Bluebeard​ and the cultural and social origins this fairytale
stems from. This link also provides students with a visual representation of the story
while also providing students with an engaging reading to spark interest and further
questions students can use to further their understanding of the material.

Supplemental Cinderella Text​: (“A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella”)
https://www.npr.org/2015/03/13/392358854/a-girl-a-shoe-a-prince-the-endlessly-evolving-cinder
ella
This source provides students with visual representations of the fairytale, ​Cinderella​. The
images included in the link contain both historical representations of the story while also
showing modern day representations as well. The source also provides students with an
analysis text of how this particular fairytale and how it is used throughout cultures and
societies in a multitude of ways.

Theory of Myth- Crash Course


Layout
Day One: Introduction Videos and Explanation of Project
Day Two: Jigsaw Activity
Day Three: Wrap-Up Jigsaw and Begin Project
Day Four: In-Class Working on Project
Day Five: Share Out Project

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