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Lesson 1. Transforming

For one of the most comprehensive and beautiful fairy tale sites on the web, visit http://surlalunefairytales.com/index.html which includes 26 annotated fairy tales, their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,000 illustrations.

A wonderful site about the life and work of Jackson Pollock
http://nga.gov/feature/pollock/pollockhome.html
http://nga.gov/feature/pollock/painting1.html

Vist this site to see how another elemtary school created a wonderful but very different fairy tale project. http://manning.k12.ia.us/Elementary/onlineprojects/fairytales02/ftlinks.htm

This site provides a comprehensive collection of Fairy tales organized by author and region. There are also ideas for lessons. http://cln.org/themes/fairytales.html

Lesson 5. Creating a character template

Lesson 2. What is a fairy tale?
What are the characteristics?

Fairy tale graphic organizer: http://jenksusa.k12.ok.us/Main.pages/District/Curriculum.Instruction/diff.lessons/fplan.html

Elements of a Fairy Tale- http://putnamvalleyschools.org/ft/02Elements.html

Fairy Tale Lesson Plans with wonderful links to tales from around the world http://putnamvalleyschools.org/ft/02Elements.html

A Fairy tale inspired webquest which includes important elements of geography as well as literature. http://plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq19/tales.htm

http://darsie.net/talesofwonder provides an extensive archive of fairy tales.

For a comprehensive for lists of stories by region, author as well as lesson ideas, background information , and read alouds for younger students visit http://cln.org/themes/fairytales.html

Lesson 6. Transforming characters

Lesson 3. Writing our fairy tales
How can we transform a tale?

The University of Southern Mississippi Cinderella Project.has created a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. Exemplifies the variations of text and illustration of one fairy tale. http://usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html

Mrs. Seagert's Fairy Tale Challenges is a site that helps children identify, compare, and create fairy tales, http://mcs.k12.in.us/mes/seagert/welcome.htm

For beautifully written and illustrated Fairy tales visit http://bartleby.com/76/
The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast from the Old French Quiller-Couch's selection from the Cabinet des Fées, the French collection spanning over forty volumes. "What began as a strict translation became a 'retelling' of these classic fairy tales".

This Snow White teaching page by Kay E. Vandergrift is the place to visit for more in depth exploration of this fairy tale. http://scils.rutgers.edu/%7Ekvander/swteach.html

http://abcteach.com/FairyTales/storyplanner.htm provides clear and helpful student materials.

Lesson 7.Finding backgrounds on the Internet.

Lesson 4. Editing our tales

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