Language Arts 12
(Monday, 17 December 2018) & Tuesday/Wednesday 18-19 December 2018
Unit Learning Goal: Students will be able to discern the common universal themes and elements of mythology, folktales, and fairy tales, including narrative structure, the use of archetypes, and the “hero’s journey.”
Learning Targets: I understand and can identify motifs, themes and archetypes in folk and fairy tales and use those to write a fractured folk tale or fairy tale.
Language Arts 12
Friday, 14 December 2018 & Monday, 17 December 2018
Unit Learning Goal: Students will be able to discern the common universal themes and elements of mythology, folktales, and fairy tales, including narrative structure, the use of archetypes, and the “hero’s journey.”
Learning Targets: I understand and can identify motifs, themes and archetypes in folk and fairy tales and use those to write a fractured folk tale or fairy tale. I can provide clear and direct feedback to my peers to help them improve their tale.
(Monday, 17 December 2018) & Tuesday/Wednesday 18-19 December 2018
Unit Learning Goal: Students will be able to discern the common universal themes and elements of mythology, folktales, and fairy tales, including narrative structure, the use of archetypes, and the “hero’s journey.”
Learning Targets: I understand and can identify motifs, themes and archetypes in folk and fairy tales and use those to write a fractured folk tale or fairy tale.
- Once your group is done reading and providing feedback, you are going to pick a partner WITHIN your current group and create the illustrations with a cover for their fractured tale.
- These illustration requirements include:
- AT LEAST 5 illustrations on SEPARATE full sheets of printer paper
- The full pages must be mostly full
- Create a cover for the Fairytale as a whole that prominently shows the title and author and make sure to mention the illustrator on the inside of the cover in neat font (not counted as one of the 5 separate illustrations) and uses color and detail (you can trace!!)
- Neat and deliberate illustrations that reveal the action of the story and accurately portray the characters in your partner’s story
- Both the illustrations and the cover need to be professionally and thoughtfully done in COLOR
- AT LEAST 5 illustrations on SEPARATE full sheets of printer paper
- Once your illustrations and cover are completed to the best of your ability, you will need to give them back to the author.
- The author’s job is now to edit their Fairytale and format it to fit with the pictures (think which part of the story goes with which illustration, and how can you break up the fairytale into parts that match the illustrations?)
- Authors need to add a “dedication” page between the cover and the first story page. Dedicate your book to someone (or multiple someones). Below the dedication, please write a statement of the moral or lesson that your story imparts to the reader. This should be typed and formatted appropriately to match your storybook.
- Once the fairytale is fully edited and formatted, the author will create a storybook that includes both their written work and their partner’s illustrations/cover.
- Please print out the pages appropriately (play with font, size, etc. think children’s books!) and create your book. You will need to bind the book somehow… so get creative, but make sure it stays together and the reader can easily turn the pages/open the book and see the pages and artwork in a true book-like fashion.
- This final production of your book is due Thursday January 3rd at the beginning of class!
Language Arts 12
Friday, 14 December 2018 & Monday, 17 December 2018
Unit Learning Goal: Students will be able to discern the common universal themes and elements of mythology, folktales, and fairy tales, including narrative structure, the use of archetypes, and the “hero’s journey.”
Learning Targets: I understand and can identify motifs, themes and archetypes in folk and fairy tales and use those to write a fractured folk tale or fairy tale. I can provide clear and direct feedback to my peers to help them improve their tale.
- Take a few minutes to read over your fairytale that you turned in on Thursday night.
- Grab a “Writer’s Workshop” matrix
- In groups of 6, read your stories aloud one person at a time.
- After each person completes their reading, take about write down 3 positive qualities/interesting things you found from their story
- AND 3 suggestions that could be anything from a name change to adding a more intriguing ending to word choice suggestions, etc.
- Then, share that information and your comments with the author. This should take about 5-10 minutes PER AUTHOR. Authors should be prepared to ask questions about what their audience thinks and anything that they may be wondering about in their work.
- After each person completes their reading, take about write down 3 positive qualities/interesting things you found from their story