Charleston Hughes of the Saskatchewan Roughriders brought some athlete friends with him to compete against our Sr boys and girls basketball teams. It was a great afternoon of fun competition, but he also talked about bullying and he and many of the other players shared some personal stories of support and encouragement.
He’s a record of our afternoon of fun!
You’ve recently studied and analyzed an old-time, original fairy tale, one that was likely quite a stark contrast to the type of enjoyable and reassuring fairy tales you’re used to in more modern times.
Examples of the extremes of older, original fairy tales includes:
Newer fairy tales, the ones we read to kids today, don’t include such gruesome and horrible storylines. And for good reason!
Your task in this assignment is to write the dialogue exchange between an interviewer and the main character of the original fairy tale you read. In that conversation, the interviewer wants to challenge the character on the messages and potentially dangerous influence their “story” would be to today’s kids.
Resources for Planning:
Script Writing Resources:
The interview conversation will be written out in Script Form with the goal it is performed as a Stage Play.
To see samples of short stage scripts, try these:
We’re about to transition into what happens for Canada after the separation of American States and the migration of British Loyalists to Canada. Some of the biggest issues that need to be resolved include:
The decisions made by authorities in response to these issues has contributed (indirectly) to some of the tensions and issues Canadians are currently facing and struggling with today, including:
To help you find ways to connect to and be able to focus on this new information, you have to try to connect it to existing knowledge you already have.
Or you won’t be able to understand and retain it. This initial discussion of the topics and developments that will occur of Canada’s history in this Unit are an attempt to help you recognize how these events and choices made regarding them lead us to where we are today, the good and the bad!
Overview of Unit Concepts (video/discussion)
Reading Textbook – lead up to split of Upper and Lower Canada (video)
Pdf of Text Pages 118-141 Shaping Canada Textbook
While you likely grew up thinking of fairytales as stories with a happy ending after heroes and heroines manage through a complicated problem, the original fairytales were stories intended to scare children into submission and doing what they were told. They were dark, included elements really not appropriate for children, by today’s standards, and are surprisingly different in their messages.
One of your tasks in this section is to select one of the original fairytales. You’ll read it to understand what they used to be like and analyze them for patterns or common messages. Then you’ll consider the comparison – how are they a different type of story than fairytales of the present?
Don’t believe me? Check out the Dark Side of the Grimms Fairytales (article)
Sites to find your original fairytale from are provided below.
Note: Make sure you select one that’s long enough that you’ll be able to analyze it for meaning and content. Some of the shorter ones won’t include enough to really consider. Check with me on your story choice if you’re uncertain.
Page 3 Question 5 Support: Developing Your own Critical Thinking Questions
You are also asked to develop some thoughtful questions for discussion, after studying your original fairy tale text. You are well-practiced at answering questions posed to you, but not as practiced at developing thoughtful, higher-level thinking questions yourself. Here, you have an opportunity to practice that.
You want to try developing more-advanced types of questions that would require someone to understand the text and apply it to their experiences and knowledge, rather than asking them questions for answers that can be found directly in the text.
Lower level questions are easier to answer: for example, list the characters in your story. (Remembering)
Higher level questions require more thought to answer: for example, explain why a character acted the way they did. (Applying)
Pg 4 Group Comparative Discussion: What are the similarities, differences, and characteristics in general of fairytales?
Here is a discussion recording you could use: six students compared the original fairytales they studied. (2022)
Pg 6 Inquiry Searching: Articles that support/refute your initial personal conclusion.
Sometimes, when you’re speaking to the public, it can enhance their understanding and acceptance of your topic and message if you develop a visual presentation to accompany your live speech. It doesn’t have to include a lot of details, but just a few well-selected images or a brief video that supports your topic and message can help to enhance your presentation.
If you’re someone less comfortable, as well, with speaking in front of others, the visual you develop will draw much of your listener’s attention, taking the focus off of you.
There are examples in the handout below of poor and better choices in developing the visual presentation to accompany your speech.
There are also instructions included for how to embed/attach the media source you will pick to accentuate your presentation.
Feedback from previous student samples:
Body Language During Speaking:
Also, if you haven’t stood up in front of a group to give a presentation before or for a while, you may forget some of the elements of that to consider like:
To help you recognize uncomfortable body language vs comfortable, you’ll watch two speakers deliver their messages. They both talked about very personal topics, so should have both been as nervous as the other, but one displays that discomfort more than the other. You’ll maybe recognize these differences as you watch.
