Ms' Sims' Folktale Friends

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Ms. Sims' Folktale Friends
2nd Grade
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Table of Contents

• What is a Folktale?
• Characteristics of a folktale
• Types of folktales

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What is a folktale?

• A story that began long ago, spoken from
  person to person
• A story passed down through the ages
• Teaches a lesson
• Explains why things are as they are

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Table of Contents

• What is a Folktale?
• Characteristics of a folktale
• Types of folktales

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Characteristics of a folktale

• Simple and straight forward
• Magic or supernatural powers
• Characters represent human qualities such as
  good, evil, wisdom
• Problems and conflicts occur
• A happy ending
• Good rewarded, evil punished

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Table of Contents

• What is a Folktale?
• Characteristics of a folktale
• Types of folktales

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Types of folktales

• Trickster
• Fable
• Why story
• Fairytale
• Tall tale

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trickster tales

• One character is smart and sly
• The main character causes a problem
• No harm comes to the main character
• The main character is unpunished

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Trickster tales from different cultures

• North America
• coyote, hare

• Africa
• spider, tortoise

• Japan
• badger

• Europe
• fox, wolf

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Examples of trickster tales

• The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
• A Mayan tale of a clever rabbit and the tricks he
  uses to escape from the coyote

• The Tortoise and the Hare
• A North American tale of a race between the
  speedy hare and the slow, yet steady tortoise.

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Fable

• Short story
• Teaches a lesson or a moral
• Animals have human qualities
• Stresses a theme

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Fables from around the world
China The Tiger finds a Teacher
Iran The Magic of Mushkil Gusha
Germany The Fox and the Cat
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Here's some well-known fables
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi A story about a brave Mongoose
who saves a Boy from an evil cobra
The Sick Lion A tale of a clever fox
discovering a lions trick to get food without
chasing it himself
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Why Stories ??

• Explains why something is as it is
• Explains how something came to be

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Why stories from around the world
Africa Why crocodile has a rough back
Iroquois Nation how bear lost his tale
India How the leopard got its spots
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Examples of why stories
How the Camel Got its Hump An exciting tale
of how the camel got his hump.
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin A tale of
how the rhinoceros skin got so wrinkly.
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Fairytales

• Good and bad characters
• A hero or heroine
• Magic and fantasy
• Ends happily ever after
• The problem is overcome by kindness, courage
• or intelligence

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Fairytales from different cultures
Russia Baba Yaga
France The Enormous Nose
Pakistan Dorani
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Some well-known fairytales
Cinderella The story of a maiden who became
a princess after fitting her foot into a golden
slipper
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush The story of
a poor boy who found a magical paintbrush that
could give him whatever he wanted
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Fairytale Authors
Hans Christian Andersen
Brothers Grimm
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Tall Tales

• Larger than life super-human
• main character with a specific job
• Problem solved in a funny way
• Exaggerated details that describe
• things greater than they really are

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Tall Tales

• How did tall tales start?
• Settlers who made homes in the American
• wilderness made up stories

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Favorite Tall Tales
Pecos Bill
A story about the best cowboy the world has
ever seen. He was raised by coyotes, wrestled a
rattlesnake, rode a cougar, tamed a wild mustang
named Widow Maker, and rode a twister across the
west. He alone started the cattle drive to
Kansas and he made the Grand Canyon.
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Favorite Tall Tales
Paul Bunyan
A tale of gigantic size about a giant
lumberjack who lives in the forests of the
Northern Mid-west, befriends a blue ox named
Babe and clears all of forest alone.
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Favorite Tall Tales
John Henry
The African- American tale about the steel
drivin man who could drive more nails into the
track than hundreds of men put together.
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Lets Review
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_____ is an example of a trickster tale.

• A) Cinderella
• B) The coyote and the hare
• C) Pecos Bill
• D) Liang and the magic paint brush

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Oops, Good try! Try again!!

• Lets review the question.

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Which is a trickster tale?

• A) Cinderella
• B) The Coyote and the Hare
• C) Pecos Bill
• D) Liang and the magic paint brush

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Thats right. Great Job!

• Go back to the question

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A tall tale is ____?

• A) A tale explaining how something came to be
• B) A tale that animals have human qualities
• C) A tale with the main character having
  super-human characteristics
• D) A tale that ends happily ever after

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Oops, good try! Try again!
Lets Review the question
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What is a tall tale?

• A) A tale that explains why something happens
• B) A tale that gives animals human qualities
• C) A tale that gives the main character
  super-human qualities
• D) A tale that ends happily ever after

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You are correct!! Great job!!
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That's All Folks!!