Writing Assignment
Genre: Fairy Tale
Purpose: To entertain
Audience: Kids/students
P.O.V.: First-person
1. Choose a well-known fairy tale (for selections, please go to see this list of fairy tales). You may look for others online or in books.
2. Re-write the story with humour and from a different perspective (i.e. perspective of a character).
Keep in mind that a story must have all its necessary elements and a fairy tale has its specific characteristics (refer to class notes).
We will have several classes for you to brainstorm, draft, share (to gain feedback), revise and edit, before your final version is due. Please bring your work in progress to EVERY ENGLISH CLASS.
Due date to be determined.
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Here's an example of a Story Map of a fairy tale retold:
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Setting: Tree House
Characters: Rapunzel (heroine), Lapunzel (Rapunzel's evil sister), George (hero)
Problem: Lapunzel traps Rapunzel in their tree house
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Event 1: Rapunzel reads her favourite 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; 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 actually a hair extension
Event 6: Rapunzel takes out another extension and ties one end to the tree and throws George the other end
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Solution: Rapunzel ends up climbing down the hair extension
