Campers in Fairy Tales, Folktales, Fables spent most of their first week in class identifying the common threads that run through these different types of stories. They used Venn diagrams the identify common elements and storyboards to map out plots. Their in-depth analysis helped them discover that the common threads running through these tales cross cultures and time.
After a quick review of the last several days spent learning about the elements of fairy tales, folktales, and fables, instructor McKenzie Morris prepared the students to stray from the typical path. It was time to fracture some fairytales!
Campers enjoyed hearing the re-tellings of stories they remembered from when they were young. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs was a particular favorite and led campers to consider that one way to fracture a fairy tale was to switch the good guy and the bad guy.
The students broke up into groups to look at other fractured fairy tales and identify the components the retellings had on common with the originals, and what had changed from the original story.
This is all building up to their final project, an original fractured fairytale! The students can choose any original tale they like and “fracture” it in some way, to create a new story. The original tale must be identifiable in their new creation for it to be considered a fractured fairytale. We’re excited for Friday when we will get to hear their tales!
