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Fairy Tale Writing ProjectsRemember fairy tales usually have the following elements: (Remember, they don’t have tohave all the elements to be considered a fairy tale.) Fairy tales begin with “once upon a time” and end with “and they lived happily ever after”.Fairy tales have a good and evil character and the good character is a type of royalty such as a queen.Fairy tales often take place in a forest, palace or town.Many times fairy tales include a type of magic.Fairy tales usually teach a lesson or have a theme.Fairy tales have a problem and solution.Complete the following “fairy tale” projects below that add up to 25points:5 Points Each:Brainstorm a list of twenty “good vs. evil characters” in well-known fairy tales. Make a chart to displaythe characters. Example: Snow White vs. Evil QueenPretend that you have a blog and you are a “fairy tale critic”. Write three short reviews for threepopular fairy tales that are one to two paragraphs long. Make sure you include the main characters andproblem and solution for each review. Create a title for your blog.Pretend that the good and evil main characters of a fairy tale have gotten into a “text message war”.Determine the characters and write what the text message war would look like (two pages long).Write a one-page biography of a famous author of a famous fairy tale. Include important informationsuch as their birthdate, full name, education, residence (where did they live) and what inspired them to writethe particular fairy tale.10 Points Each:Write a two-page fairy tale with a school principal as the evil character that uses a form of magic.Rewrite a popular traditional fairy tale so that it could take place in modern times. Add technology,modern transportation and current popular “trendy” names to replace the original ones.Write a fairy tale about a princess and prince that wanted to attend a school dance, but the evil“playground gang” attempted to keep them from attending. Use characters form your own school in thefairy tale.Recall an important or funny event that took place at your school or in your classroom this year.Rewrite the event as a fairy tale with all the elements.Write a two page “Part Two” version of a popular fairy tale making the good character evil and the evilcharacter good. GinaKennedy
HOW TOWRITE AFAIRY TALE!Do You Love These Fairy Tales? Beauty and the BeastCinderellaLittle Red Riding HoodPinocchioSnow White and the Seven DwarfsThe Three Little PigsHave You Ever Wondered How To Write a Fairy Tale of Your Own?Once upon a time ahandsome king like me .Let’s Get Started!Fairy tales are special stories that are different from other kinds of stories. Theystart with “Once Upon a Time” and end with “they lived happily ever after”.They have good and evil characters and take place in unique areas like a forestor a castle. Sometimes a character in a fairy tale has magical powers and mostfairy tales teach a valuable lesson. Follow the fairy tale rough draft template onthe next page to create your own unique fairy tale. GinaKennedy
Fairy Tale Rough Draft1. Fairy tales always have at least one good character, or person, in the story. Anexample of a good character is Snow White. Fairy tales often have badcharacters, too, like Cinderella's mean stepsisters. Another example of a badcharacter is the evil witch in Hansel and Gretel.In most fairy tales; one of the characters is royalty, which means that the personis a king, a queen, a prince, or princess. A good example of this is The Princessand the Pea. Characters may also be animals, like the wolf in Little Red RidingHood, or the bears in Goldilocks and the Three Bears.Think about who you’d like your two main characters to be in your fairy tale; onegood character with a royalty title, and one evil character. Use character traits todescribe each of your fairy tale’s main characters below. Also describe reasonswhy they deserve those character traits, things they will do in your story or havedone in the past.Good character’s Name: (royalty title included)Description:Evil character’s Name: (royalty title included)Description:Description: GinaKennedy
2. Another element of a fairy tale is that the story often takes place in a castle, aforest, or a town. This is called the setting. The setting is where the fairy taletakes place. “The Three Little Pigs” is set in the woods, and “Snow White and theSeven Dwarfs” is set in the forest.Use this space below to write a paragraph using descriptive words to describe thedetails of the setting of where your fairy tale is going to take place. (Most fairy taleshave more than one setting such as in Cinderella; one setting is at the ball, another is athome with the stepsisters and another is in the carriage, feel free to describe each one.)Setting One:Setting Two:Setting Three:3. One of the most important elements in a fairy tale is that they always have aproblem that must be solved. For example, in the Princess and the Pea, theprince wants to find a real princess to marry. His mother, the queen, helps himfind a real princess by putting a pea in the bed to find out if the princess can feelit.Use the following space to describe what the main problem of your fairy tale isgoing to be. GinaKennedy
Now explain how the problem in your fairy tale will be solved:4. Magic is often an element of fairy tales. In Cinderella, there is a fairy godmotherthat helps Cinderella go to the ball in a fancy dress and carriage. In Jack and theBeanstalk, Jack buys magic seeds that grow into a beanstalk.Use this space below to describe how you will include “magic” in your fairy tale. GinaKennedy
5. Many times a fairy tale will teach us a lesson or have a theme. For example in“Cinderella” people may learn many lessons such as “beauty is only skin deep” orthat “good things happen to good people”. In “The Three Little Pigs” a readermay learn that “three heads are better than one” or that it is always important tobuild a strong house.Write the main lesson below that you’d like your readers to learn after they haveread your fairy tale.6. One of the elements of fairy tale is that they often start and end with specialwords like "once upon a time," "a long, long time ago," and "they lived happilyever after." When you read those words, you know that the story could be a fairytale.Write the beginning of your fairy tale here:Once upon a timeWrite the ending of your fairy tale here:and they lived happily ever after.WOW! Now you’re ready to start putting your fairy tale togetherusing all the information from your rough draft. Good luck! GinaKennedy
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Fairy TaleProject RubricThe Rough Draft is Complete25 pts.The Fairy Tale includes all the Required Elements20 pts.Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar20 pts.The Fairy Tale is Creative and Makes Sense20 pts.Fairy Tale is Neat and Organized15 pts.Total Points .100 PointsStudent’s NameTotal PointsGrade GinaKennedy
Fairy tales always have at least one good character, or person, in the story. An example of a good character is Snow White. Fairy tales often have bad characters, too, like Cinderella's mean stepsisters. Another example of a bad character is the evil witch in Hansel and Gretel.
