autobiography, folktales

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Types of Stories

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Biography Definitions

The story of a person's life, written by another is your story as told by someone else

Records of life events, memories, thoughts andlessons learned. Experiences and observations of them that make

each story unique.

Typically encompasses one's entire life and is fullof memories from childhood through later stages. It usually flows chronologically.


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Are usually about famous,or infamous people, but a biography of anordinary person can tell us a lot about aparticular time and place.

They are often about historical figures, but

they can also be about people still living.
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Characteristics of Good Biography forYoung Learners

Simple Easy to read

Accurate Complete Compelling biographies of historic people Researched Unbiased


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Provide activities that reinforce and assess

what a student has read. Feature the things that kids really want to

know, such as what that person was like as achild and what obstacles they overcame toaccomplish their achievements.


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Autobiography


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Definition

The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts states

"an autobiography is a person's own biography,or written account of his or her life,distinguished from the journal or diary by

being a connected narrative, and from memoirs by dealing less with with contemporary eventsand personalities".
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Characteristics of an Autobiography

1. The main character is the author

2. The story of a persons life written by that

person.

3. Recounts the key incidents in the writers life

4. Describes major influences (people, events,

places) on the writer


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5. The story is told from the subjects point of view, no people need to be interviewed.

6. Describes interactions between the writer andsignificant people in his or her life

7. Reveals the writers feelings, reactions,

values, and goals


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Examples of Autobiographical booksfor children

1) More About Boy by Roald Dahl the expanded story of Roald Dahl's

childhood. Dahl's adventures and misadventures during

his school years are crowded with people asstrange and wonderful as any character hecreated and are as exciting and full of theunexpected as his celebrated fiction.


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Bill Peet : An Autobiography

the story of Peets life told in chronological orderwithout chapter divisions. It begins with his firstmemories in Grandview, Indiana, during World

War I. This section tells of his move toIndianapolis to live with his grandmother, theviolent relationship between his parents, his firstartistic efforts, his feelings for the environment,his experiences at school, and the early readingthat became the foundation for his later writing.


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Folktales(Folklore/mythology, Fables)


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Folktale A folktale is a fictitious story told to amuse and

amaze the listeners. The action takes place in a far-off time and place :

Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom...These stories feature kings and princesses, giantsand dragons, fairies and sorcerers, magicalobjects and talking animals.

Like the traditional folksongs, the folktales camefrom France and were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation along thebanks of le Dtroit .


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Everyone who tells a folktale tells it in his or her

own fashion/style. Therefore, each version is a little different from

all the other versions. The details change and evolve, but the core of the

story remains the same. Two of the folktales Cinderella and The

Fisherman and His Wife are found all over the

western world. You can see how they were told insome of the Detroit River communities.


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Folklore

Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge,and practice that is disseminated largely through oralcommunication and behavioural example.

Every group with a sense of its own identity shares, as

a central part of that identity, folk traditions the thingsthat people traditionally believe. Examples: (planting practices, family traditions, and

other elements of worldview), do (dance, make music,

sew clothing), know (how to nurse an ailment, how toprepare barbecue), make (architecture, art, craft), andsay (personal experience stories, riddles, song lyrics).


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Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, music,oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs,fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs thatare the traditions of a culture, subculture, orgroup.

It is also the set of practices through whichthose expressive genres are shared. Folklore can contain religious or mythic

elements, it equally concerns itself with thesometimes ordinary traditions of everydaylife.


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Mythology The word "myth" comes from the Greek

word mythos, which means a spoken or written story. The purpose of a myth is to explain human experience.

Many events in a myth are not realistic or based onfact, since the message communicated by the story ismore important than telling about an actual event.

Because all groups of people have myths, and oftenmyths are associated with religion, the stories havebeen passed down through the ages to become thebasis of a society.

A collection of myths is called a "mythology."


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People study mythology because the storiesprovide a way of understanding ancient cultures.

Ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks, Romans,Egyptians, Aztecs, and Mayas, created myths toexplain many aspects of life: how they came intoexistence as a people; the reasons for good andevil; the seasons; the weather; and themovements of the sun, moon, and stars.

Because science as a mode of inquiring about thenatural world did not yet exist, ancient peoplesused myths to explain the natural world.

In a very broad sense, the word mythology canrefer to any traditional story.


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Fables

A fable is a brief fictional story, in prose or verse,that features animals, mythical creatures, plants,inanimate objects or forces of nature which areanthropomorphized (given human qualities suchas verbal communication), and that illustrates orleads to an interpretation of a moral lesson.

A fable is explained as a short narrative makingan edifying or cautionary point and oftenemploying as characters animals that speak andact like human beings, or a story about legendarypersons and exploits.


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Examples of fables are those of Aesop'sFables with more than 600 narratives,including "The Goose with the Golden Eggs"and "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing."

The word fable is derived from fabula , whichis Latin for 'discourse', and is used in literarycriticism to refer to the actual events that takeplace in a narrative.

"The Lion King" is another notable fable.


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Legend

Definition A legend is an unverified story handed down from

earlier times, especially one popularly believed to

be historic a story about mythical or supernatural beings or

events or noun : brief description accompanyingan illustration

Passed down by the elders


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Example

Puteri Gunung Ledang (Malaysia) Mount Mayon (Philippine)

King Arthur (famous western)


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Example

Stories like Goldilocks could be seen as a parablebecause it is attempting to teach a moral messagethat breaking and entering is wrong.


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References

Mitchell, D. (2003). Childrens Literature: AnInvitation To The World . US: Allyn and Bacon

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