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Fairy Tale Reconstruction

by Marini Drobish, 826 Digital Educator Leader
This lesson invites students to write a modern day fairy tale. Students will reconstruct classic fairy tales by choosing to focus on altering one story element: setting, point of view, or resolution.
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What Your Students Will Learn

Your students will learn how to reconstruct classic tales through altering story elements, including: setting, point of view, and resolution.

Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.A Common Core Standards Icon
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.E Common Core Standards Icon
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.A Common Core Standards Icon
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.E Common Core Standards Icon
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
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What Your Students Will Produce

Your students will produce a reconstructed fairy tale.

What You Will Do

Note to Educators: In this lesson, educators act as the head of a publishing house, giving students their next writing assignment. A planner, listing the deadlines for each step, is built-in to the letter. If you choose to complete this lesson with your students, we suggest you fill in these dates together as a class.

Dear Writers:

As your publisher, I have a new and exciting assignment for you. Our company has decided to take a new approach to children’s literature and we need your help. Fairy tales have been a literary staple for a very long time, but due to the change in popular reading recently, they have lost their appeal. That’s where you come in with your incredible writing skills. Your assignment is to choose an already published fairy tale and update it. The fairy tale can be from any civilization in the world, whichever fairy...

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