<p>Fairytales Discussion Questions English 9</p><p>Name: ______Pd: ______</p><p>Make sure you respond to the question clearly and accurately.</p><p>1. What important lessons do fairytales teach us? Be specific!</p><p>2. How have you applied a lesson from a fairy tale to your life?</p><p>3. How do you think fairy tales have traditionally set up gender roles—how boys and girls are expected to behave?</p><p>4. Do you think fairy tales will ever be written differently? Why or why not?</p><p>5. How do fairy tales give us a sense of history? Explain and give an example.</p><p>6. How can fairy tales be dangerous? Fairytales Discussion Questions English 9 H</p><p>Name: ______Pd: ______</p><p>Make sure you are answering the question and writing in complete sentences.</p><p>1. Why do you think children need to hear stories about magic or enjoy them so much?</p><p>2. Why do you think Disney made light of such frightening fairy tales? What insight might Mr. Disney have had into human psychology? (How individuals think and experience thinking/emotions)</p><p>3. What do fairy tales seem to teach us about family, overall? Give an example.</p><p>4. Would you tell Grimm’s fairytales to your own children? Why or why not?</p><p>5. Fairy tales sometimes show us the darker side of ourselves, the villain in all of us. How is that true? Fairytales Discussion Questions English 9 GT</p><p>Name: ______Pd: ______</p><p>Your writing should be thoughtful, clear and intelligent, as well as complete sentences and thoughts.</p><p>1. Why do you think children need to hear stories about magic or enjoy them so much? </p><p>2. Some people say gender is forced on us by fairy tales—girls locked in towers, princesses needing rescuing. Why do you think this is changing?</p><p>3. Fairy tales sometimes show us the darker side of ourselves, the villain in all of us. How is that true?</p><p>4. “Othering” is the act of keeping a group out of society by making them different and scary. In what ways do fairy tales OTHER groups of people or keep them out? Give an example!</p><p>5. Fairy tales sometimes show us the darker side of ourselves, the villain in all of us. How is that true? </p>