Fairy Tales and Legends - G7-9 Booking form
Explore, learn, and grow from the tales of past generations.
Fairy Tales and Legends (Grades 7-9)
What students will discover:
Students will explore stories from many cultures and places both near and far to find out why these tales were told and what they taught. Students will then examine how relevant they are today and learn to copy the format to create modern-day fairy tales and legends of their own. (Pick an edition to get started).
FAIRY TALES AND LEGENDS EDITIONS YOUR CLASS WILL LOVE!
- Trickster Edition
- Spooky Edition (great for Halloween).
- Villain Edition (learn about what made them so scary and if they were real!)
- World Edition (pick a country and we’ll bring you the stories)
- History Edition – Use the stories from a point in history (chosen by you) and how they reflected what was happening in the culture.
- Suggest your own edition and we’ll make it happen!
Outcomes:
Students will learn about the history behind the stories, be able to identify the different types of stories and their purpose, explore and categorize the characters, and create their own stories using the tales and legends as a leaping-off point.
Curriculum Touch Points:
Grades 7-9
- Consider the relationship between form, content, and purpose, and how it influences the expression of ideas, personal opinions, and understandings through a diverse lens.
- Discover preferences and personal interests in literature while engaging personal experiences on the perspective of a text.
- Analyze and understand texts using historical and authorial perspective, themes symbolism, perspective, figurative language, geography, time, models of governance, contact with other cultures, connotative and denotative meanings, dialects, slang, and idioms to understand and develop respect for the diversity of ideas, cultures and traditions.
- Draw from personal experiences & knowledge to generate ideas and create original texts.
Cost for schools
This program is best taught as a single session or half-day program. Multiple classes can experience this workshop over a day.
- $350.00 a session (60-90 minutes)
- $650.00 half-day session (morning or afternoon)
- $1200.00 for a full day
Save money by booking multiple classes!
For example: For the single full-day fee, you can book two single sessions in the morning and a half-day session in the afternoon.
Not in the Calgary area? Contact us about getting a remote instructor.
School on a tight budget. Let's chat. We may be able to work something out.
