Title: Elements of Folktale- the Pourquoi

Title: Elements of Folktale- The Pourquoi Grade Focus: 6 Subject: Language Arts & Technology Technology Integration: Digital Imaging, PowerPoint Presentations Recommended Time to Completion: 8 43 minute periods

Introduction: What are folktales? What is a pourquoi? Students will learn the basic components of the folktale genre and pourquois in particular. Then, they will write an original pourquoi explaining how an animal got a feature or trait and transform the tale into a PowerPoint.

Prerequisite Experience: Technology Skills Needed by Students: Basic Computer Skills PowerPoint basics Additional Skills: Research skills to investigate the main animal in the story which will be endangered and the other 2 support characters.

Teacher Prep Time: This lesson is provided in totality by the Library Media Specialist Student prior knowledge of basic story elements, (plot, setting, characterization, problem climax, resolution), and proper use of quotation marks is helpful.

Materials: Lesson PowerPoint which details the folktale genres, pourquoi elements, and story elements.

Sample PowerPoint of a Pourquoi finished product.

Handouts which include: 1. Double bubble compare and contrast graphic organizer to compare 2 pourquois; How Rhinoceros Got His Skin and How Camel Got His Hump. 2. Story Element sheet for the analysis of How Horse Got Fast. 3. Research sheets for each of the three animals. 4. Pourquoi guide sheet for the original tale 5. PowerPoint guide sheet.

Project: The Pourquoi Students will create an original Poruquoi and transform it into a PowerPoint. They will develop an understanding of folktale, story element, research skills and technology.

Assessment: Rubric Lesson Plan Details

Engage Students will review their knowledge of folktale utilizing a PowerPoint presentation with a folktale umbrella and specific examples in raindrops. Students discover that they understand myth from social studies and have basic memories of fable, legend, tall tale and fairytale based on prior classroom experience or cultural exposure. (Disney plays a large role in this realization).

Explore Students listen to How Rhinoceros Got His Skin by Rudyard Kipling and read How Camel Got His Hump by the same author. The ascertain how these pourquois have similar or different pourqois elements such as animals, magic, the change and the reason for the change in the animal’s trait. They will also read How Horse Got Fast to examine the different story elements.

Explain Students will select their own endangered species, research it with 2 other support animals and select a specific feature as a basis for their pourquoi.

Elaborate Student will create an original pourquoi explaining how or why an endangered animal has a specific characteristic and transform this into a PowerPoint

Evaluate The class can celebrate their pourqois in a writer’s workshop presentation of their tales. A rubric will evaluate the finished product

Extend The library eboard can provide an online basis for sharing PowerPoint pourquois.