February 11, 2011 - Fairy Tales

Below are links to websites for three fairy tales.  Please read each one for the given due date.

                  Snow White (February 14, 2011)
                  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm053.html

                 Bear Skin(February 14, 2011)
                 http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms76.html

Upon completing the reading, please address the following questions:
             1.) What characteristics were common to both tales and maybe be evident of characteristics
                   of fairy tales in general?
            2.) These tales were often told to children, what do you think children would glean from this work?
            3.) What do these tales demonstrate of the culture?

Cinderella (February 15, 2011)
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html

       1.) Be sure to read The Brother's Grimm version listed under number 3
       2.) Read number 18  The Native American Cinderella
       3.) Read number 12 Conkiajgharuna,  The Little Rag Girl
       4.) Read the Ancient Egyptian version:   http://library.thinkquest.org/J002037F/egyptian_cinderella.htm

Create two columns and take note of similarities in the tales and differences.

If you would like to read further fairy tales, please check out the links below.
Further Fairy Tales:

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html