Sentences with phrase «writing folktales»

Then ask students to choose another figure of speech and write a folktale about how it came to be used.

Folktale Writing A well - known children's book author helps students learn how to write folktales.

Create a Folktale Students write a folktale modeled after tales from Hispanic cultures read and heard in class.

And so we wrote this folktale collection.

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Ox - Cart Man written by Donald Hall illustrated by Barbara Cooney The Little Red Hen retold and illustrated by Paul Galdone The Year At Maple Hill Farm written and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale retold and illustrated by Demi Ish written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds Billy and Blaze written and illustrated by C. W. Anderson The Little Yellow Leaf written and illustrated by Carin Berger A Book of Sleep written and illustrated by Il Sung Na Listen, Listen written by Phillis Gershator illustrated by Alison Jay Art written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell Little Owl Lost written and illustrated by Chris Haughton The Story of Ferdinand written by Munro Leaf illustrated by Robert Lawson

A New - England Folktale, written & directed by Robert Eggers.

The Witch: A New - England Folktale is written and directed by first time director Robert Eggers.

«We were able to do what we do as teachers,» says theater arts teacher Judy Dove, who had students in her puppetry class make Asian - style rod puppets and write and perform folktales based on Popoviciu's Everest climb.

Brief Description After reading and listening to folktales from various Hispanic cultures, students write a new folktale.

Once Upon a Time Fables, fairy tales, folktales, legends, myths, and tall tales — six literary genres that engage student interest — can be used in the classroom to inspire creative thinking and writing.

Have students write their explanations for the riddles in these stories: All for a Paisa» This folktale from India shares how a seemingly lazy boy is able to prove his worth — and the worth of a paisa coin — to his disbelieving father.

Assess students based on their written reflections / critical thinking about the riddles behind the folktales.

After the lessons, students can write their own contemporary version of a folktale and present it as a stopmotion or Claymation film.

Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual collection of Hawaiian folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.

There are so many folktales and legends from Mexico that I would like to write about them all and show them to the world.

REAGAN: Did you have to do any research on these folktales while writing The Serpent's Secret, or did you rely on your own memories and experiences?

When I wrote The Serpent's Secret, I could go back to Thakurmar Jhuli and to my own book of translated folktales — and, of course, I had my own rich memories.

KELLER: I can't say too much, but I'm writing another middle grade, this one based on the Korean folktales my grandmother used to tell me.

Just as reading a Russian folktale inspired her to write The Snow Child, so too did the concept for Eowyn Ivey's second novel arise from a piece of literature - this time on the fragile pages of a rare book she discovered at the bookshop where she worked.

Interestingly, prior to receiving an outline of the tale from a Chinese nonfiction writer I knew from one of my writing groups, I never thought of rewriting folktales.

The outline itself was very rough and written with an adult as the main character (MC), which is often the case with very old folktales.

Rewriting a Folktale — Walking Through Walls The Outline Method of Writing (Are You an Outliner?)

To write Julie's biography, he looked to the English ballad and folktale tradition, narrating a life that conveys the beauty, vibrancy and contradictions of the ordinary individual.

The exhibition will debut the museum's recently acquired preliminary version of Aerospace Folktales, 1973, a largescale photographic installation, including 142 photographs, a written commentary, and four audio interviews that investigate the artist's own class and family circumstances.