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Course: 2nd grade reading & vocabulary > Unit 1
Lesson 1: Building knowledgeWelcome to the Fairy Tales Retold unit!
How would you tell your own version of your favorite fairytale? There’s a lot we can learn about classic stories by writing different versions of them. What did the other characters think, and why was the villain bad? What if the story took place in a big city or in outer space? What happens after the characters live happily ever after? These are the kinds of questions we’ll be exploring in this unit.
In this unit, you will:
- See how we can make our own versions of classic stories
- Read new versions of fairytales
By:
- Watching videos to help you understand what good readers and writers do
- Reading and answering questions about literary and informational texts
- Learning new academic words
In order to answer the essential question: How can we learn from a new point of view?
Want to join the conversation?
What is a fairy tale?(22 votes)
A fairy tale is a story, often intended for children, that features fanciful and wondrous characters such as elves, goblins, wizards, and even, but not necessarily, fairies. The term “fairy” tale seems to refer more to the fantastic and magical setting or magical influences within a story, rather than the presence of the character of a fairy within that story. Fairy tales are often traditional; many were passed down from story-teller to story-teller before being recorded in books.
II. Examples of Fairy Tale
Fairy tales, in the literary sense, are easy to find. Look at your bookshelf or your DVD collection.You may see titles likes these:
Snow White
Cinderella
Rip Van Winkle
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Rumpelstiltskin
Thumbelina(41 votes)
What is the story all about in the end(15 votes)- she was going to her grandmother home(1 vote)
- Why red riding hood look much older and why the wolf on its four legs(8 votes)
It could be a different version of the fairy tale than the one you've heard. Fairy tales were usually told orally, which allowed even what was once the exact same story to diverge and evolve into many separate storylines. I've heard Red Riding Hood stories where the Wolf eats both Red Riding Hood and her grandmother and the story ends, where a lumberjack cuts open and kills the wolf to save Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, and where the grandmother is stuffed into a closet instead of eaten. I'm sure there are lots more, and some of those tales probably have an older Red Riding Hood and a Wolf on four legs.(16 votes)
- Why do we need to know vocabulary words(7 votes)
- so we can read vocabulary word(7 votes)
- how do i become a good fairy tales writer.(5 votes)
You can try reading more fairy tales if you think your ideas aren't good enough or you lack of ideas. Reviewing and taking notes of the writing from a fairy tale written by an expert always help. Try writing down all your ideas on a paper and try to choose the best ideas for your story. If you want to be a pro at it try writing more fairy tales.
I hope my tips are just what you wanted and needed. (^^)(5 votes)
- Why is the big bad wolf bad.(3 votes)
- In most versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf performs actions that most people would view as immoral and generally not nice, which, according to some philosophies, would make him a bad individual. The wolf wants to eat the contents of Red Riding Hood's basket, which doesn't belong to him. The wolf kills the grandmother. Killing another is usually bad, even more so when the reason for killing is to obtain something by force that wasn't the killer's. The wolf deceives Red Riding Hood by pretending to be someone he isn't.
Wolves have been regarded as not good for ages, since they prey on livestock and some may be dangerous to people.(12 votes)
- I want to know if they get the story from a movie?(4 votes)
It is actually normally the other way around. Most movie directors get ideas for movies from books. For example, the movie Peter Pan came from the book Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie.(7 votes)
What does classic mean(2 votes)
"judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind."
"very typical of its kind.
'Hamlet is the classic example of a tragedy' "
"a work of art of recognized and established value."(8 votes)
a like to learn(5 votes)- What happens after the characters live happily ever after?(4 votes)
- happily ever after(1 vote)
