GRADE LEVEL/COURSE TITLE: 3rd Grade/Stories Shared Around the World (Fairy Tales, Fables, & Myths) Genre Characteristics Fairy Tales Fables Myths Short stories tale passed made up stories Often begins with down from how the world upon a time” generation to works and how we “Once Has a happy ending generation should treat each Things happen in has a moral to teach other threes (and a lesson setting long time – sometimes sevens) animals are ago, before history Animals have human characters as we know it was traits animals personify written Stories include magic humans Some myths answer Good/evil character. usually no more questions of How or Revenge or than 2 or 3 Why forgiveness at the characters animals or mythical end creatures are often most famous were characters written by Aesop events may be supernatural or involve Greek Gods
GRADE LEVEL/COURSE TITLE: 3rd Grade/Stories Shared Around the World (Fairy Tales, Fables, & Myths) Genre Characteristics Fairy Tales Short stories Often begins with “Once upon a time” Has a happy ending Things happen in threes (and sometimes sevens) Animals have human traits Stories include magic Good/evil character. Revenge or forgiveness at the end Fables tale passed down from generation to generation has a moral to teach a lesson animals are characters animals personify humans usually no more than 2 or 3 characters most famous were written by Aesop Myths made up stories how the world works and how we should treat each other setting – long time ago, before history as we know it was written Some myths answer questions of How or Why animals or mythical creatures are often characters events may be supernatural or involve Greek Gods
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