![]() ![]() To surprise readers (and hopefully make them laugh), throw a twist into how the fairy tale ends. ![]() These events also provide loads of opportunities for fracturing! Returning once again to “The Stinky Cheese Man,” there’s a major change to the plot because even though the Stinky Cheese Man is running away from everyone (just like in “The Gingerbread Man”), no one actually wants to catch him because he smells so awful. Change the PLOT.Īll of the events that move a story from its beginning conflict to its ending resolution form the heart of the plot. I took this approach with “ Gransel and Hetel.” The main problem isn’t that the two children get abandoned in the woods by their father and stepmother-they run away from home because they’re sick of eating their stepmother’s spaghetti. So if you’re looking to fracture a fairy tale, just do a switcheroo with the story’s underlying conflict. Change the CONFLICT.įor any story to get rolling it needs a PROBLEM-it needs a source of CONFLICT. This new setting creates all sorts of opportunities for further fracturing. In my readers’ theater script “ The Three Pirate Pigs,” the pigs aren’t on land-they head out to sea. But where exactly that someplace is may undergo a shift. Change the SETTING.Įvery story has to happen someplace. In Jon Scieszka’s “The Stinky Cheese Man” the gingerbread man has become. Change the CHARACTERS.įractured fairy tale characters don’t have to be the same as their traditional counterparts. Whether students are reading or writing fractured fairy tales, they’ll learn about key story elements as you present these seven ideas for how to fracture a fairy tale: 1. This list can be presented as part of a mini-lesson and posted as an anchor chart to provide a classroom resource throughout a fairy tales unit. Join us! Like Plymouth, Jamestown, or Ellis Island in its heyday, Liberty Island is open for business.How do you fracture a fairy tale? How does “Cinderella” become “Cinder…Really?” or how does “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” become “Goldilocks and the Three Aardvarks”? Using examples pulled from Jon Scieszka’s The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and from a few of my readers’ theater fractured fairy tale scripts, we’ll look at seven different ways to take a traditional fairy tale and turn it on its head. A place where your right brain is allowed to run free. What is Liberty Island? An imaginative colony. At Liberty Island, good still triumphs over evil, hope still overcomes despair, and America is still a noble experiment and a beacon to the rest of the world. We aim to be the missing link in a cultural feeder system that has systematically marginalized those who did not go to the right schools, attend the proper writing programs, or toe the correct ideological line. Think of Liberty Island as a rallying point for a revolt against conformity and groupthink. Writers and creators you've never heard of, and won't find anywhere else, because their views have been excluded from the mainstream popular culture. At Liberty Island, readers of a conservative or libertarian bent can find fiction, music, video and graphics that reflect their social values and political beliefs - and readers of all persuasions can find new voices and undiscovered talent. Here they can present their latest works, interact with colleagues, and connect with a likeminded audience. Our mission is to support this raw and untamed counterculture by gathering its creators in one place and providing the tools and resources they need to succeed. Today the situation is reversed and a new counterculture has arisen, one that boldly challenges the cynicism, nihilism, and stifling political correctness of popular culture today. Once upon a time the mainstream culture was conservative and the so-called counterculture was left wing.
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