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FRACTURED STORIES Fractured Fairy Tales ] Fairy Tales to Read

HOW TO FRACTURE A FAIRY TALE
[|Examples of fractured fairy tales] [|Write your own fractured Fairy Tale] media type="youtube" key="hAAkauRR-y4" height="349" width="425"

media type="youtube" key="Kby4oA1nQZM" height="349" width="425" ** Process ** Working with a partner, do the following activities.

Choose fairy tales

Step 2: After reading the traditional fairy tales, you and your partner will choose one story that you will "fracture".

When you choose the fairy tale, plan the plot of the story and discuss the following questions with your partner:

* What is the setting of the traditional story? What is the setting of our fractured fairy tale? * Are we going to change the point of view of the original story? * How will we change the characters in our fractured fairy tale? * What is the problem in our story? What is the solution? * How can we make our story funny?

Remember, there are a lot of ways to fracture a fairy tale! * Change the main character * Change the setting (time or place) * Tell the story from a different character's point of view * Make the problem of the story different * Change an important item in the story (for example, the glass slipper in Cinderella) * Change the ending of the story (maybe they don't live "happily ever after" after all!)

Step 3: Read at some examples of fractured fairy tales. This will give you some idea of how other authors have fractured various stories.

You can read these fractured fairy tales on these websites to get some ideas:

Fractured Fairy Tales

Fractured Cinderella

Mrs. Jones Class Fractured Fairy Tales

Mrs. Steins Class Fractured Fairy Tales

=Read an example of a fractured fairy tale and answer questions to help them identify the fairy tale elements and how the author fractured the original fairy tale.= = = =Questions= =What was the original fairy tale?= =Who is the hero?= =Who is the villain?= =What are examples of magic or fantasy?= =How did the author fracture this story?= =What are some unexpected or silly details and events that the author included?=

Step 4: Write your own fractured fairy tale!

Example of a story map:
Story Map Setting: tree house Characters: heroine: Rapunzel villain: Rapunzel’s mean older sister Lapunzel hero: George Problem: Lapunzel traps Rapunzel in their tree house Event 1: Rapunzel reads her favorite book in her tree house Event 2: Lapunzel walks by and hides the ladder to the tree house Event 3: Rapunzel realizes she’s stuck and calls for help Event 4: George walks by and offers to help Rapunzel. He tells her to let down one of her long braids so he can climb up Event 5: As George begins to climb he falls down because the braid is really a hair extension Event 6: Rapunzel takes out another extension and ties one end to the tree and throws George the other end Solution: Rapunzel climbs down the hair extension