This lesson on folk tales will help students discover the values of different cultures while they explore literature. The students will create a folk tale using a moral they would like to teach.
Students write effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students apply complex thinking skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing. Each student will read several folk tales, choose one and write down the moral it teaches. Then the students will create their own folk tales using one of the morals from the folk tales that they read. Prerequisite Skills Students need to understand what a moral is. Students need to know how to write a story.