FOLK TALES REDEFINED

Prompt: Folktales were originally created to share lessons, warnings, or values with their communities. After reading your folktale, think about the message it was meant to teach. Then, write a paragraph in which you redefine that message for today’s world.

• What lesson or warning did the folktale originally carry?

• How could that message apply to your own life, your community, or the modern world?

• Do you think the meaning has changed over time, or does it still hold true?

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.