Lesson+8

Grade Level: 2nd Grade 

Unit: Fairy tales

Assignment type: You Tube Videos

Lesson objectives (include 2 or 3):
 * Student will understand 
 * Student will be able to 
 * Student will understand

Time required to complete this lesson: 2 hours 

Title of lesson: Storytelling Different Ways 

Resources/materials needed:

Youtube, a pencil, and paper.

Some Great You Tube Videos of many ways that Fairy Tales are told:

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Description of Videos: 
 * 1) The first video is the classic story of Snow White given in animated form. It demonstrates to children that fairy tails are often told through animation and and video. It also gives an abbreviated story of Snow White for their enjoyment.
 * 2) The second video is also animated, but it shows that fairy tales are sometimes fractured and that you can put different elements and plot lines of fairy tales together to come up with a new story. Above on the fairy tale unit websites children can try their own hand at writing a fractured fairy tale.
 * 3) The third video shows that fairy tales can be dramatized and shown in a play format. After watching this video and discussing this concept with your child it may be a fun activity to go see the local high school or community theater preform a play (many of them are fairy tales through out the year).
 * 4) The fourth video is educational in multiple ways. The first thing that makes this video educational is that this art is lost forever (the video explains why). The second concept is that this video demonstrates that fairy tales can be told and depicted through art in unexpected forms.
 * 5) The fifth video shows that stories can be depicted through music. This video is a sing along from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
 * 6) The sixth video is a read aloud from the story of //The Twelve Dancing Princesses.// It shows that reading aloud is one other way that fairy tales are told. (Perhaps the most common way.) After watching this video a fun activity to do with your child would be to do a read aloud of your own of a fairy tale (perhaps for some new material go to the library and check out a new book).

Description of lesson: The students will watch all of the you tube videos. Then the students will have a discussion about them in class and respond to them. This is described in the assignment below. 

Assignment: I will ask them to write a brief summery of the videos and answer some questions about them to get the students to use their higher level thinking skills.

Technology used: Clips from you tube, a web 2.0 tool, the internet, a computer.  The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It allows me to show a lot of clips in a short amount of time.  It also engages the children and makes learning a new concept fun. The videos are more tangible than me telling them about the different ways stories are told in a lecture format.