Point of View and Fairy Tales II - Stories from across the world

Today you will once again work with your same partner as last week.
This time you will return to the same website to explore fairy tales from other cultures and traditions.
http://www.worldoftales.com/

You and your partner will start by looking at tales from these traditions:

• Ryan and Stella - African - Nigerian
• Jacob and Jackie - African - South African
• Maggie and Josh - African - Tanzanian
• Lucas and Caroline - Asian - Arabic
• Nikki and Matt - Asian - Chinese
• Brenden and Isabel - Asian - Indian
• Zoe and Zach - Asian - Japanese
• Jordan and Theodora - South American - Brazilian

You will choose two tales from your list to work with today.

Again you will work with either a Google Presentation or a Prezi format - up to you (and if there is another program you want to use, let me know!).

First, you will tell the story as it exists.  Add in images and make edits if it is a long story, but the goal with this step is to tell the story true to its original state.

Next you will re-tell the story from an "American" perspective, however you want to interpret that.  In order to make that happen, you will first want to talk about the differences between the culture and tradition represented in the original story and the ways in which it would be different if it were set in the United States. Then, think about where you want to situate that story here - is it in the North Shore? In DHS? In Chicago? In some other part of the country?

Lastly, you will include a slide that comments on the similarities and differences between the cultures and aspects of these two versions of the story.  What changes did you need to make?  Why?  What does one culture value differently than the other?  What does one culture include in its stories that are hard to imagine in the other?

We'll hopefully share these at the end of class tomorrow.

Enjoy!