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"But all fairy tales have rules, and perhaps it's their rules that actually distinguish one fairy tale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won't come true" Jostein Gaarder
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Do you think modern fairy tales still follow these "rules"?
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Do you think modern fairy tales still follow these "rules"?
How do these two clips show a shift in interactions in family relationships?
How will the characters in your rewriting of a fairy tale incorporate or not incorporate family relationships? Why?
These are the type of questions that will be beneficial to not only your construction of the fairy tale but also when writing your rational for that fairy tale.
How will the characters in your rewriting of a fairy tale incorporate or not incorporate family relationships? Why?
These are the type of questions that will be beneficial to not only your construction of the fairy tale but also when writing your rational for that fairy tale.
Daily Assignment Schedule
Week One
Wednesday
Monday
Week Three
Monday
Monday
Final Paper Due Exam Week
Week One
Wednesday
- Introduce final unit- Modern Fairy Tales
- Activity-Once Upon a Time Clips + Discussion
- Assign: Final Paper- Fairytale and Rationale
- Assign: Reading- “Hillary S. Crew Blog Response”
- Blog: What can we learn from analyzing fairy tales?
- Identifying the value in writing traditional fairytales. Introduce strategies to use when rewriting a fairy tale or constructing a new one.
- Activity-Class Discussion On Reading
- Lecture-Strategies
- Assign:“Learning about Ourselves through Fairy Tales: Their Psychological Value”
Monday
- Expand the discussion: Studying and rewriting fairy tales allow us to understand and learn more about ourselves.
- In-Class Writing Assignment: How does Mitchell’s argument connect back to your analysis in your fairy tale narrative from Unit One?
- Lecture/Discussion: The purpose of fairy tales in understanding the human condition.
- Blog: What do you want readers to learn about human experience through your re-telling/rewriting of a traditional Fairy Tale?
- Assign Reading: “From Book to Film: Ella Enchanted” By Macario Ben Romero and Patricia Barker
- Small Group Activity: Students compare a clip from Ella Enchanted from a passage of the book. In addition, discuss this in terms of society and culture’s influence as shown by Barker and Romero.
- Discuss questions and concerns with upcoming fairy tale paper.
- Use remaining time to pre-write fairy tales.
- Peer Review Day- Bring 2 Hard Copies of Fairy Tale
Week Three
Monday
- Fairy Tales Due
- Review Rationale Component of Final Paper- Structure + Expectations
- Demonstrate research tactics for U.D.’s library resources
- Research Library Day
- Assign: Select two sources that you will use to support your rationale.
- Show model of an Rationale
- Lecture: Effective thesis statements
- Prewriting Activity--Forming an outline + Reviewing paper’s structure and focus
Monday
- Drafting Day
- Peer Review
- Wrap Up Final Class
Final Paper Due Exam Week
Unit Four: Modern Interpretation
Wednesday
Monday
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Monday
1. Drafting Day
Friday
1. Peer Review
Monday
Wrap Up Final Class
Wednesday
- To introduce students to the final unit- Modern Fairy Tale. To assign the final paper.
- This class functions to engage student in the final topic and provide them with what to expect for the last unit.
- To engage students, I use clips from Once Upon A Time and lead the students in the discussion about the television series modern interpretation of fairy tales.
- I will evaluate my teaching through student response. I will evaluate student learning through the following blog: What can we learn from analyzing fairy tales?
Monday
- To identify the value in re-writing traditional fairy tales. To introduce strategies to use when students rewrite their own fairy tale. To create the rubric as a class for the final paper.
- This reading transitions nicely in to helping students understand the purpose of the final paper. After we discuss the reading, I introduce writing strategies early on in the unit, because I want the students to stay on task and prepared. Also, since this is a more creative assignment, I want to give the students concrete examples that will help them construct their own re-write fairy tale.
- To teach this lesson I use discussion and lecture. Discussion will keep the student engaged in the topic through participation. I chose to lecture strategies, because I wanted to provide the students with clear direction.
- I will evaluate the discussion through student participation/response. I will evaluate my teaching through the student’s upcoming pre-writing, blogs, and final fairy tale.
- To expand the discussion on re-writing fairy tales. To discuss how rewriting fairy tales can allow us to understand and learn more about ourselves. To help students to start thinking about what they will write for their fairy tale.
- I use this reading assignment to guide the students in thinking about the psychological impact on fairy tales as well as to consider how they will write their own fairy tale.
- I assign a writing assignment to help the students to reflect on the reading and prepare them to discuss the article. I use discussion to support critical reading of the text.
- I will evaluate my teaching and student-learning through their responses and the blog. What do you want readers to learn about human experience through your re-telling/rewriting of a traditional Fairy Tale?
- To discuss modern interpretation. To pre-write for the fairy tale paper.
- This reading aims to critically reflect on the value of modern interpretations. This class will also provide the students with the opportunity to pre write. This way, I will be able to answer any questions or concerns for the upcoming fairy tale paper.
- I use the reading “From Book to Film: Ella Enchanted” By Macario Ben Romero and Patricia Barker to support the discussion on modern fairy tales. I also use a small group activity where students compare a clip from Ella Enchanted from a passage of the book. In addition, we will discuss this in terms of society and culture’s influence as shown by Barker and Romero. I use clips of Ella Enchanted as a way to engage student interest.
- I will evaluate student-learning through their pre-writing assignments.
Monday
- To collect Fairy Tales. To review Rationale Component of Final Paper. To define the structure and expectations.
- Since the paper was assigned and the rubric was designed at the beginning of the course, I found it necessary to review the second component of the final paper.
- I use the rubric and writing assignment to guide this review.
- I will evaluate student learning and teaching through their responses and the final paper.
Wednesday
- To teach students research strategies.
- Students will need to use scholarly sources for their rationale. Therefore, Research Library Day aims to equip students with the necessary information to find the sources they will need.
- I will have the librarians teach this component at Roesh library since they are more informed than me.
- I will evaluate student learning by checking their sources for the paper.
Friday
- To provide students with a model of a Rationale.
- Students will benefit from a concrete example that they can easily apply to their own papers.
- I use a model of a paper and present it on the projector. I also lecture on how to write a thesis statement for this paper. After reviewing a model and lecturing, students will pre-write or form an outline.
- I will evaluate student-learning through their pre-writing or outline activity. I will evaluate teaching-effectiveness in their final paper.
Monday
1. Drafting Day
Friday
1. Peer Review
Monday
Wrap Up Final Class
Lesson Plan Day #2
Objective: To critically evaluate how re-writing fairy tales can help us to understand the human experience. To prepare students for brainstorming about the upcoming paper—to rewrite their own fairy tale.
Materials: “Learning about Ourselves Through Fairy Tales: Their Psychological Value” by Meredith Mitchell; paper; pen
Opening: Today, we will discuss how studying and rewriting fairy tales allow use to understand and learn more about ourselves. We will start with an in-class writing assignment.
The Plan: First I will assign an in-class writing assignment:
How does Mitchell’s argument connect back to some of the conclusion you made in your fairy tale narrative paper?
After 5-7 minutes, students will share their connections. An example of a possible connection might be:
-My fairy tale narrative helped me to explore a psychological topic: identity. I was able to further learn about fairy tales how they approach identity.
Writing your fairy tale narrative was a personal reflection on the relationship between identity and fairy tales. This connects to Mitchell’s argument that fairy tales are representations of psychological processes (Mitchell 264). She states, “stories can be analyzed in a practical way as a means of developing useful tools that may aid us in reflecting upon things that we observe in our daily lives” (264).
To engage students in the article, I will begin by asking their personal responses along with follow up questions.
What was your response to Mitchell’s article?
Why did you agree or disagree?
What specific examples in the text led you to that conclusion?
How does that apply to other readings?
Based on the students’ responses, I will use the following questions to analyze and further expand our understanding of the article.
· How can fairy tales act as a way to communicate with one another? (265)
o Where are some examples that Mitchell gives? Explain. (266)
o Can you think of another way? One example is this course! We communicate about fairy tales each day to strengthen are critical thinking and writing skills.
· How does Mitchell define fairy tales? (267)
o What do you think about this definition? Agree or disagree why?
· “Myths and fairy tales are symbolic dramatizations of what is basic in the human personality. They can serve as portals to understanding the human condition in general, but they also touch each of us individually” (268)
o How does Meredith support her claim?
o Do you agree or disagree? Why?
· What can be gained by understanding the psychological value of fairy tales?
· What are some of your critiques of this article?
o More context might be needed to understand the psychological theories
o Sometimes Mitchell seems to go on “tangents” or sometimes her tone seems too casual—example 264 her experience with an Asian woman
(At this point in the Unit, I have less guided questions, because students should be equipped to add questions and comments of their own. Discussion is a key part of this course; so I do not use as much guidance as I did in Unit One lesson.)
To conclude, I would like you to get in to groups of 2-3 and respond to the following quote: “To be attracted or repelled by a fairy tale indicates that the story contains something that resonates with an un-conscious process in the reader or listener, for one cannot be attracted or repelled unless one recognizes something that is personally meaningful”
Students will share their responses.
I will the show how this article is relevant to our upcoming paper:
For your upcoming paper, you will be writing or re-writing a fairy tale. You will also need to support that fairy tale through a researched Rationale. One way you might choose to support your fairy tale is through its psychological value. You might explain how a character, setting, or plot point explores a common, daily activity from a particular community or culture. To aid you in starting to think about your fairy tale re-write, I have assigned the following blog:
Blog: What do you want readers to learn about humans through your re-telling/re-writing of a traditional fairy tale?
Conclusion: Today, we learned how fairy tales have psychological value through our textual analysis of the Meredith Mitchell’s article. This will help you to consider what you would like readers to understand after reading your version of the fairy tale. On Wednesday, we will do a small group activity and discuss the reading “ From Book to Film: Ella Enchanted” by Macario Romero and Patricia Barker.
Objective: To critically evaluate how re-writing fairy tales can help us to understand the human experience. To prepare students for brainstorming about the upcoming paper—to rewrite their own fairy tale.
Materials: “Learning about Ourselves Through Fairy Tales: Their Psychological Value” by Meredith Mitchell; paper; pen
Opening: Today, we will discuss how studying and rewriting fairy tales allow use to understand and learn more about ourselves. We will start with an in-class writing assignment.
The Plan: First I will assign an in-class writing assignment:
How does Mitchell’s argument connect back to some of the conclusion you made in your fairy tale narrative paper?
After 5-7 minutes, students will share their connections. An example of a possible connection might be:
-My fairy tale narrative helped me to explore a psychological topic: identity. I was able to further learn about fairy tales how they approach identity.
Writing your fairy tale narrative was a personal reflection on the relationship between identity and fairy tales. This connects to Mitchell’s argument that fairy tales are representations of psychological processes (Mitchell 264). She states, “stories can be analyzed in a practical way as a means of developing useful tools that may aid us in reflecting upon things that we observe in our daily lives” (264).
To engage students in the article, I will begin by asking their personal responses along with follow up questions.
What was your response to Mitchell’s article?
Why did you agree or disagree?
What specific examples in the text led you to that conclusion?
How does that apply to other readings?
Based on the students’ responses, I will use the following questions to analyze and further expand our understanding of the article.
· How can fairy tales act as a way to communicate with one another? (265)
o Where are some examples that Mitchell gives? Explain. (266)
o Can you think of another way? One example is this course! We communicate about fairy tales each day to strengthen are critical thinking and writing skills.
· How does Mitchell define fairy tales? (267)
o What do you think about this definition? Agree or disagree why?
· “Myths and fairy tales are symbolic dramatizations of what is basic in the human personality. They can serve as portals to understanding the human condition in general, but they also touch each of us individually” (268)
o How does Meredith support her claim?
o Do you agree or disagree? Why?
· What can be gained by understanding the psychological value of fairy tales?
· What are some of your critiques of this article?
o More context might be needed to understand the psychological theories
o Sometimes Mitchell seems to go on “tangents” or sometimes her tone seems too casual—example 264 her experience with an Asian woman
(At this point in the Unit, I have less guided questions, because students should be equipped to add questions and comments of their own. Discussion is a key part of this course; so I do not use as much guidance as I did in Unit One lesson.)
To conclude, I would like you to get in to groups of 2-3 and respond to the following quote: “To be attracted or repelled by a fairy tale indicates that the story contains something that resonates with an un-conscious process in the reader or listener, for one cannot be attracted or repelled unless one recognizes something that is personally meaningful”
Students will share their responses.
I will the show how this article is relevant to our upcoming paper:
For your upcoming paper, you will be writing or re-writing a fairy tale. You will also need to support that fairy tale through a researched Rationale. One way you might choose to support your fairy tale is through its psychological value. You might explain how a character, setting, or plot point explores a common, daily activity from a particular community or culture. To aid you in starting to think about your fairy tale re-write, I have assigned the following blog:
Blog: What do you want readers to learn about humans through your re-telling/re-writing of a traditional fairy tale?
Conclusion: Today, we learned how fairy tales have psychological value through our textual analysis of the Meredith Mitchell’s article. This will help you to consider what you would like readers to understand after reading your version of the fairy tale. On Wednesday, we will do a small group activity and discuss the reading “ From Book to Film: Ella Enchanted” by Macario Romero and Patricia Barker.