Teaching English in Elementary

Grades through Literature

Activity 1

Submitted by:
Jhonry D. Laquinta
BEEd 3-A
 MAKE YOUR OWN
COMPILATION OF THE WELL-
KNOWN FAIRY TALES. AT
LEAST 5 EXAMPLES, MAKE
YOUR OWN CREATIVITY.

 RAPUNZEL

"Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale recorded by the

Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of
Children's and Household Tales. The Brothers Grimm's
story developed from the French literary fairy tale of
Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force
(1698).

Rapunzel is a spirited and determined young woman,

with a strong sense of curiosity about the world, and a
willingness to step outside of her comfort zone to
experience her dream. Despite not knowing the world
beyond her tower, she finds the courage to push herself
forward and pursue her ambitions, discovering new friends
and her true self in the process. Rapunzel is the
protagonist of Disney's 2010 animated feature film,
Tangled. She is the princess of the kingdom of Corona,
known for her long, magical, golden hair. As a child,
Rapunzel was abducted by a wicked crone and locked away
in a remote tower for eighteen years—during which, she
became fascinated with a phenomenon involving "floating
lights" that would only appear on her birthday. With the aid
of the handsome thief, Flynn Rider, Rapunzel escaped her
tower to learn more about the lights and pursue her dream
of exploring the outside world.
 SLEEPNG BEAUTY

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical

fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on the 1697
story "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. The 16th
Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters
on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution.

The folktale begins with a princess whose parents are

told by a wicked fairy that their daughter will die when she
pricks her finger on a particular item. In Basile's version,
the princess pricks her finger on a piece of flax. In
Perrault's and the Grimm Brothers' versions, the item is a
spindle. The parents rid the kingdom of these items in the
hopes of protecting their daughter, but the prophecy is
fulfilled regardless. Instead of dying, as was foretold, the
princess falls into a deep sleep. After some time, she is
found by a prince and is awakened. "The Sleeping Beauty in
the Woods", is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is
cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, to be
awakened by a handsome prince at the end of them. The
good fairy, realizing that the princess would be frightened
if alone when she awakens, uses her wand to put every
living person and animal in the palace asleep, to awaken
when the princess does.
 JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. It

appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the
Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's
moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807.
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is the best known of the "Jack
tales", a series of stories featuring the archetypal Cornish
and English hero and stock character Jack.

Jack, a poor country boy, trades the family cow for a

handful of magic beans, which grow into a massive,
towering beanstalk reaching up into the clouds. Jack
climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an
unfriendly giant. The giant senses Jack's presence and
cries. The moral for Jack and the Beanstalk would be make
the best of a bad situation, and when opportunity knocks,
take advantage of it. Jack does both. When the beanstalk
grows, he climbs and finds the giant's lair. He takes
treasure from the giant's home. The quick-thinking Jack
calls for his mother to throw down an axe for him; before
the giant reaches the ground, Jack chops down the
beanstalk, causing the giant to fall to his death. Jack and
his mother live happily ever after, and are never poor or
hungry again, thanks to Jack's burgling skills.
 SNOW WHITE
AND THE
SEVEN DWARFS

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American

animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney
Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

One day, a queen sat working at a window with an

ebony frame, with the snow falling outside. She pricked her
finger (presumably she was sewing or knitting, though her
precise occupation, other than ‘queen’, is not usually
stated), and, watching the drops of blood, she made a wish
that her little daughter would grow up to be as white as
snow, as red as her blood, and as black as the ebony
window frame. And sure enough, the queen’s daughter
grew up to have snow-white skin, cheeks as red as her
mother’s blood, and hair as black as ebony.The Grimm fairy
tale gets a Technicolor treatment in Disney's first animated
feature. Jealous of Snow White's beauty, the wicked queen
orders the murder of her innocent stepdaughter, but later
discovers that Snow White is still alive and hiding in a
cottage with seven friendly little miners. Disguising herself
as a hag, the queen brings a poisoned apple to Snow White,
who falls into a death-like sleep that can be broken only by
a kiss from the prince.
 BEAUTY AND
THE BEAST

Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale written by French

novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and
published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes
marins (The Young American and Marine Tales). Her
lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by
French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in
1756 in Magasin des enfants (Children's Collection) to
produce the version most commonly retold.

Beauty and the Beast is a story about a young prince

that was cast under a spell. His spell could only be broken
with true love. Through many ups and downs, he found
love with Beauty, and she, in time, returned his love. They
marry and the prince's spell is broken, and they live
happily ever after. The moral of Beauty and the Beast is
that we should value inward characteristics such as
kindness over other superficial qualities, such as wit and
appearance. This moral is presented by showing that
Beauty valued the inward characteristics of Beast, and fell
in love with him despite his outward appearances. Beauty
and the Beast, has examples of dramatic irony. The
audience knows from the beginning of the movie that the
beast is a prince, but Belle does not.