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Fairy tales from past to now

Turkey

Class 1-B

We have researched and told fables from past to present...

Class 4-B

Croatia

Traditional Little Red Riding Hood and Modern Versions 

2nd grade teacher Mateja Pernar and religion teacher Dolores Brkljačić 

We have chosen three fairy tales:  

  1. Little Red Riding Hood (brothers Grimm) 

  2. Who´s Bad and Who´s Good, Little Red Riding Hood? (Smallman, Price)   

  3. Little Green Riding Hood (Silvija Šesto).  

The students and the teacher read one fairy tale each day of the project week and talked about the characters. Students explained the differences between these fairy tales and talked about their expectations. They also talked about the main problem in the story and how this problem affected the end of the fairy tale. 

On the fourth day, students in groups explored the themes and meanings of a fairy tale. After reading the fairy tale, the students made a personal identification card of the main character. Then they had to recognize the relatives, positive and negative characters and find the cause of the problem. With the help of information gathered while solving these tasks, students created a class poster for a particular fairy tale. 

On the fifth day the students stayed in the same groups. Each group had a different task.  

The first group had to perform an improvised dramatization of its fairy tale with the use of dolls. 

The second group had to retell the other students their fairy tale with the help of a story timeline. Students drew specific concepts or ideas on the timeline and those ideas were an association to the fairy tale event. 

The third group interpreted its fairy tale with the use of a story dice. The student threw the dice and had to complete the task. There were several tasks on the dice:  

  1. Retell the story from the point of view of a chosen character (a first-person narrative) 

  2. Include yourself in the story 

  3. Invent a funny event in the story 

  4. Include a new character in the story 

  5. Change the end of a fairy tale  

  6. Change the place of the plot 

Fairy Tales From the Past with a Modern Twist 

Sara Futač and 6th E form students 

In Croatian class while working on Croatian Tales of Long Ago, by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, the students used the storyteller paper tool 

(which they made at home) to present six fairy tales: How Quest Sought the Truth, Fisherman Plunk and His Wife, Bridesman Sun and 

Bride Bridekins, Little Brother Primrose and Sister Lavender, Yagor and Toporko and His Nine Brothers. On the top side of the storyteller   

 tool, they drew four drawings associated with a fairy tale. Inside of it, they set eight questions. There was an answer below each question.  

Children were divided into groups of 4 – 5 students. Each student in the group had a different fairy tale and a storyteller tool tied to it.  

They played with each other using the storyteller tools, asking each other questions, answering them and commenting on which part of fairy  

tales they particularly liked. They especially commented on the end of every fairy tale and chose the best one.  

After that, they creatively retold the fairy tales by changing the ending. They made it contemporary placing it in the present time and 

at today's locations.