Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Demonstrate their knowledge of the origins and purposes of fairy tales and folk tales. Modify world folk tales using various artistic venues. Distinguish the ways in which the themes of the folk tales reflect cultural differences. Many folk tales from around the world can be found on the web.
Students then share their answers.
Divide the class into groups of three. Each group will find a folk tale from an assigned culture. The group will then find a way to retell the tale, either as a puppet show, skit, series of pictures, or other artistic venue, and work on creating the puppets, costumes, drawings, or other art works together. In a later class, students will perform or exhibit their works for one another or for another audience. For the class program, students will write two paragraph introductions to their tales, explaining the themes represented and the way those themes reflect the cultures from which the tales come.