Fairy Tales - Mixing the story elements

From observer to participant, students played an active role in mixing up the familiar and unfamiliar story elements. The pink castle was the setting for the story. The remaining elements were left up to fate of the draw. Students drew from 3 cauldrons, characters (good/evil), problem, and magic.

Here is how one student chose to map out a story:

• Good Character - Grebsnag, the goblin
• Evil Character - Billy Bob, the farmer
• Setting - unrealistic pink castle
• Problem - The goblin was called to the castle, but Billy Bob tries to stop him.
• Solution - The goblin puts the farmer under a spell using a pencil he did not know was magic.

And, here is the story:

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away lived Grebsnag, the goblin. One day Grebsnag was called to the castle to sell a pencil that was magic. Sine Grebsnag was half Farange, he agreed. After arguing about how many latnem bars he would get, Grebsnag had many enemies, but his worst enemy was Billy Bob the farmer. Why? Because Grebsnag had cursed him so everyone forgot he was the King of the Galaxy. Except Grebsnag didn't forget that was part of the curse. Anyway, Billy Bob knew he had to stop him because if Grebsnag had 5 more latnem bars, he could buy the potion of immortality. Now, if he was immortal, then he couldn't brake the spell because to do that he needed to get rid of  him. Grebsnag was on his way to the castle when...

Author share

Students worked on their versions of many stories and shared as authors do...

Choosing elements