Key Stage Three: Term 6, Fairy tale Unit, Week ThreeLike before, please don’t worry about printing things; if you can just have a go at the questions on whatever is available to you, that is perfect.

Lesson One: Vocabulary and Picture Inference

Task One: Vocabulary1. Match the word to the image2. Match the image to a meaning

Allegory Moral Symbolise FictionalUsing something to try and represent an idea.

A story that represents a certain moral.

A story that is not true. A concern with the principles of right and wrong behaviour.

Task Two: Grammar Activity1. Match the prefix to a word so that it makes a new word.

For example, de & frost = defrost.

Task Three: Fill in the gaps1. Use the words from your vocabulary table in task one to fill in the gaps.

Fairy tales are almost always ……………….

Fairy tales often carry a ……………… message; they want to challenge the reader on right and wrong. Fairy tale characters often ………………………….a concept or idea that is hard to understand on its own.

A story that has a moral message is called an ……………………

Task Four: Picture Inference

1. Use the image to answer the inference questions.Remember, inference is where we use the information in front of us, and the knowledge of the world that we have, to try and figure something out.

What time of day is it? How do you know?

How many big stars can you see?

What does the weather feel like? Why?

How do you think the little boy is feeling? Why?

Do you think the lady is good or bad? Why?

Find three things in the picture that are “typical” of fairy tale settings.

How do the settings reflect the characters in the picture?

Suggest a good title for the fairy tale in this picture. Explain why you would call it that.

Lesson Two: Reading Activities

Task One: Understand what the word “allegory” means.

An allegory is a story with a hidden moral message. This means the story has two levels of meaning. First, there's the surface of the story, the characters and plot (focusing on what ‘happens’). Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning which provides the lesson from the plot.

Summarise the definition in your own words in 20 words or fewer:______________________________________________________________________

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Example:

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a famous religious allegory. The lion Aslan is a stand-in for Christ, and the character of Edmund, who betrays Aslan, is a Judas figure. This allows the book to provide the same moral message of the bible but through different characters and plot sequence.

Fairy Tale & Allegory

“Tell me a story...”Much of what we learn about the world in the first years of our lives is from stories told to us. There is a lot of power in a simple story, especially when we are the age in which we believe whatever we are told. When we are older, we are still ready to listen to a story and enjoy it even if we do not really believe it. That is why a story is such a powerful medium for ideas, and some of the most powerful stories are also some of the simplest—such as fairy tales and allegories.

An allegory is a fictional story that presents a spiritual truth. To outward view it is simply a story, but when properly understood, it is a careful picture of something that is difficult to draw. It is a story that takes truths that are hard for the oldest people to understand and shows them to us through the eyes of a child. You might call it a small story about a very big thing.

The Bible Your Parents Through Stories Through the media1. Where does the author say we commonly learn about the world as children?

2. The article refers to allegories as ‘small stories’ about…

Big things Small things Important things Morals and messages

Task Two: Read this version of The Snow Queen then answer the questions.

Once upon a time there lived a wicked goblin who built a magic mirror. Anything that was beautiful or good was reflected in it as ugly and bad. One day, the mirror broke and all its pieces fell all over the earth. A few pieces also fell in a small town where two friends named Kay and Gerda lived. Kay and Gerda were neighbours. They were very good friends and spent their days playing games, building sand blocks and running across the sun-kissed fields.

One day while they were playing, bits of the broken mirror hit Kay’s eyes and one piece pierced his heart. After that everything changed. Kay no longer viewed Gerda as his best friend. He poked fun at her and hit her on the head whenever he could. Gerda was puzzled and couldn’t understand why he was behaving in such a strange way.

One day, Kay and his group of friends decided to go on a sledge ride over the snow. Suddenly, a huge sledge drew up before him and its driver asked him to step in. Once Kay was inside, the driver transformed himself into a woman and sped away. She was draped in a white flowing gown and on her head was placed a crown made of ice. Her silky white locks cascaded like a flowing stream. Astonished Kay asked her who she was. I am the Snow Queen,” replied the woman, whose face shone like a sparkling diamond. She tugged at the reins and rode past the clouds and the rainbow, till they reached a distant land.

Meanwhile, Gerda waited for Kay to return. One day, she took her boat and went to search for him in the river. Seeing Gerda, a fairy cast her magic spell and made the boat approach her. When Gerda narrated her story, she sent her garden flowers everywhere to search for Kay, but they returned empty-handed.

Gerda sat under a tree and wept all night. Suddenly a crow flew down and informed her about a certain princess who had recently married a boy. Gerda grew restless thinking that Kay had married someone else and urged the crow to take her to the princess’s palace. Gerda waited anxiously inside the palace and when the boy entered she sighed with relief because it wasn’t Kay.

Gerda carried on her search and came to a forest where she met a robber girl and her reindeer. Hearing Gerda’s sad tale, the reindeer said he had seen the Snow Queen flying away with a boy to Lapland. She immediately set out for Lapland and the reindeer accompanied her. There, they came across a magician who told them that Kay was at the Snow Queen’s palace and owing to the piece of glass inside him, he considered it to be the best place in the world. She suggested Gerda visit the palace.

The Snow Queen’s palace was made out of ice. It was cold and dark, and no one except the Snow Queen lived in it. One day, she challenged Kay to spell the word “Eternity” from an assorted chunk of alphabets, all made of ice, and promised him his freedom in return.

Kay wracked his brains hard but just couldn’t spell the word. Just then Gerda arrived and seeing her long-lost friend she cried out in joy and embraced him. Just as her warm tears fell on his hard cheeks Kay felt his cold heart begin melting. He recognized Gerda and wept aloud. Suddenly, a teardrop fell on the alphabets and they spelt out the word “Eternity.”

Kay was set free and he went back home with Gerda.

1. What characteristics of a fairy tale do you notice in the story?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Why do you think a mirror is a successful symbolic object? Consider the idea of reflection vs reality.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Why is it symbolic that the villain of the story is surrounded by ice and cold?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Who is the hero of the story? Why? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What do you think the message of the story is?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“Her silky white locks cascaded like a flowing stream. Astonished Kay asked her who she was. I am the Snow Queen,” replied the woman, whose face shone like a sparkling diamond. She tugged at the reins and rode past the clouds and the rainbow, till they reached a distant land.”

6. Look at the extract above. Explain what they two similes tell the reader about the Snow Queen’s appearance.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lesson Three: Creative Writing

If you have internet access watch the following clip, concentrating on the setting of the Snow Queen’s palace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HImzW2jYMeM

If you can’t watch the clip, use this image.

You are going to write a description of the setting (the place).

Plan your description using the 5 senses to generate ideas:

Find synonyms (words that mean the same) for the following words:

Cold

Terrifying

White

Dark

Use your plan to write your description of the setting. You should write in 1st person as if you were walking in to the palace for the first time. Focus on using the senses, as well as Tier 2 vocabulary and MAPSO features. Aim for 150 words.

TOP TIP: Avoid writing ‘I could hear / I could smell’Instead focus on describing these sensations.e.g. Icicles crashed to the ground, the sound of each shard echoed around the room.The scent of smoke had been preserved in the ice, and the constant threat of fire linger beneath the icy prison.

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Review:

Read back through your work.

Ensure your sentence starters a varied and don’t always begin with ‘I’ or ‘The’.

Add an adverb (-ly word) or a preposition (over / under / through / beneath) to the beginning of one of your sentences if you haven’t used one already.