Fairy Tale Story

Write a Fairy Tale

Working in small groups, your assignment is to create an original fairy tale! The story your group writes and illustrates must be an imaginative story that demonstrates the main character overcoming an adversity in order to achieve their goal. The adversity you write about should be one that that today’s teen might face. When writing your story, you should stretch out the problem to create tension. Remember that when you are writing a fairy tale, you shouldn't summarize the events. Use dialogue, thoughts, and action to make your story more exciting!

Listed below are several common elements found in a traditional fairytale as well as the guidelines for this assignment.

ELEMENTS OF A FAIRY TALE

1. Fairy tales usually begin with “Once upon a time…” 2. Fairy tales happen in the long ago. 3. Fairy tales have fantasy and make believe in them. 4. Fairy tales usually have royalty. 5. Fairy tales have a good and an evil character. 6. Fairy tales may have magic, giants, elves, witches, or fairies. 7. Fairy tales have a problem (this is the adversity your character must overcome) that needs to be solved and very often it will happen in three tries. 8. Fairy tales have happy endings.

You must also follow the guidelines below in order to complete your Fairy Tale:

1. All Fairy Tales MUST have a Title Page. Your Title Page MUST also include the Title, Authors, and Illustrator(s). 2. Your story title must be creative, should spark interest, and needs to relate to the story. 3. Illustrations are mandatory and should help bring your story to life. 4. Fairy Tales may be typed or hand written. If they are hand written they must be legible! 5. When typing your story please use a font size no smaller than 14 and no bigger than 16. Also make sure that the font you choose is easy to read. 6. Your story should be about 7 to 10 pages long. 7. There should be a minimum of four illustrations including the cover page.

You are also reminded about “The Writing Process.” In order to have a really good story you must follow the correct steps when writing, please look at the following steps in order to help you with your writing.

1. Prewriting 2. Writing 3. Revising 4. Editing 5. Publishing Write a Fairy Tale Story Project Rubric Category 5 (A) 4 (B) 3 - 2 (C) 1 – 0 (D) Title Page Title page has a Title page has the Title page has the 3 Title page has fewer graphic or fancy title, author's name, of the 4 required than 3 of the required lettering, has the illustrator's name(s), elements. elements. title, author's names, and the year. illustrator's name(s), and the year. Title Title is creative, Title is related to the Title is present, but No title. sparks interest and is story and topic. does not appear to related to the story be related to the and topic. story and topic. Writing Students devote a lot Students devote Students devote Students devote little Process of time and effort to sufficient time and some time and effort time and effort to the the writing process effort to the writing to the writing process writing process. (prewriting, drafting, process (prewriting, but was not very Doesn't seem to care. reviewing, and drafting, reviewing, thorough. Does editing). Work hard and editing). Works enough to get by. to make the story and gets the job wonderful. done. Characters The main characters The main characters The main characters It is hard to tell who are named and are named and are named. The the main characters clearly described in described. Most reader knows very are. text as well as readers would have little about the pictures. Most some idea of what characters. readers could the characters looked describe the like. characters accurately. Adversity It is very easy for the It is fairly easy for the It is fairly easy for the It is not clear what reader to understand reader to understand reader to understand adversity the main the adversity the the adversity the the adversity the characters face. main characters face main characters face main characters face and why it is a and why it is a but it is not clear why problem. problem. it is a problem. Setting Many vivid, Some vivid, The reader can figure The reader has descriptive words are descriptive words are out when and where trouble figuring out used to tell when and used to tell the the story took place, when and where the where the story took audience when and but the author didn't story took place. place. where the story took supply much detail. place. Solution The solution to the The solution to the The solution to the No solution is character's adversity character's adversity character's adversity attempted or it is is easy to is easy to is a little hard to impossible to understand, and is understand, and is understand. understand. logical. There are no somewhat logical. loose ends. Spelling & There are no spelling There is one spelling There are 2-3 The final draft has Punctuation or punctuation errors or punctuation error spelling and more than 3 spelling in the final draft. in the final draft. punctuation errors in and punctuation Character and place the final draft. errors. names that the author invented are spelled consistently throughout. Organizatio The story is very well The story is pretty The story is a little Ideas and scenes n organized. One idea well organized. One hard to follow. The seem to be randomly or scene follows idea or scene may transitions are arranged. another in a logical seem out of place. sometimes not clear. sequence with clear Clear transitions are transitions. used. Creativity The story contains The story contains a The story contains a There is little many creative details few creative details few creative details evidence of creativity and/or descriptions and/or descriptions and/or descriptions, in the story. The that contribute to the that contribute to the but they distract author does not seem reader's enjoyment. reader's enjoyment. from the story. The to have used much The author has really The author has used author has tried to imagination. used his imagination. his imagination. use his imagination.