This week Room 9 has started a new writing unit - called Twisted Fairy Tales. Mrs Wood started us off by reading her favourite fairy tale - "The Three Little Pigs." We looked at the different features that a 'narrative' or fairy tales needs to have. Some of the features were: characters, a setting, a beginning, middle and an end, a strong plot (storyline), a problem and a solution. We started off writing our own by using the structure of the Three Little Pigs and twisting one of the features. Some of us have found this quite tricky as we have twisted heaps of features and we find that we get ourselves tied up in knots and have to go back and start over again. We have also been looking at some digital sources showing the same fairy tale. One of our favourite ones has been the following clip from You Tube. Our class has noticed some similarities and some differences between the different versions however we think they are all pretty fabulous. We hope you enjoy this clip - it was recorded by Walt Disney in 1932 but we still managed to laugh all the way through it!
Hi Room 9 - what a fun way to target story writing! I love fairy tales because we all know them and they make such good use of "stereo-types" which used to be quite traditional. Stereo-types have changed over time and modern characters lend themselves to easily "twisting" a fairytale. A well known example includes the "Shrek" series but my all time favourite is an animation called "Hoodwinked" - it is a bit like CSI meets Little Red Riding Hood... you may have seen it. A book I used to enjoy was one from the wolf's point of view called - "There's a Wolf in My Pudding". I am really looking forward to reading your twisted tales!
ReplyDeleteI love that fairy tale its cool. I don't see any other fairy tale video/story yet.
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Isaac
COOL AS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMARCEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cooooooool movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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three little pigs TWISTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from george & caleb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS MRS WOOD
ReplyDeleteTHE THREE LITTLE PIGS ARE CUTE
ReplyDeleteNINA
Good work MRS WOOD
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