Adaptive Perseverance: Encourage students to embrace challenges when rewriting fairy tales, understanding that there are multiple ways to approach storytelling. They should be open to feedback and willing to revise their work.
Learner’s Mindset: Cultivate a curiosity about different perspectives and cultures in fairy tales. Encourage students to set personal goals for their creative writing journey and be open to new storytelling techniques.
Communication: Focus on students clearly conveying their rewritten stories' themes and perspectives, both in writing and through presentations. Emphasize the importance of effectively sharing their creative process and analysis.
Critical Thinking: Engage students in analyzing how changing perspectives can reveal new insights about the original fairy tales. Encourage them to connect these insights to broader themes and morals.
What common themes and tropes are found in traditional fairy tales?
How does the narrator's perspective influence the reader's understanding of a story?
In what ways can changing the point of view reveal hidden aspects or alter the message of a fairy tale?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. This ties into analyzing themes and tropes in fairy tales.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature. This relates to understanding how perspective influences story interpretation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. This supports the creative writing and rewriting aspects of the unit.
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