Folk Tales

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Folk Tales
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What is a Folk Tale?
Folk Tale
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Fiction

• something invented by the imagination an
  invented story.
• fictitious literature (as novels or short
  stories)
• a work of fiction

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Do you know any?

• Can you tell me any of the Folk Tales that you
  have read
• or heard of?

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The Talking Egg

• Please take out your Readers and turn to page 45
  to the story
• The Talking Egg
• By Robert D. SanSouci

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Take a l k!

• Lets take a look at the
• pictures in
• The Talking Egg.
• But shhh we will be talking about it soon

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What do you think?

• By just looking at the pictures, what do you
  think the story is going to be about?

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Vocabulary

• Folk Tale
• Groping
• Contrary
• Tall Tale

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Vocabulary (cont.)

• dawdled
• rubies
• sliver
• Back Woods

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Idioms

• What you say Im beat!
• Plain English Im exhausted!
• What you say Hes is a chip off the old block.
• Plain English He is like his father.
• What you say We had to start from scratch.
• Plain English We has to start from the
  beginning.

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Now its your turn Fill in the blanks

• What you say Im all ears!
• Plain English Im listening !
• What you say They were all in the same boat.
• Plain English They were all in the same
  situation.
• What you say Its raining cats and dogs
  outside!
• Plain English Its raining heavily outside!

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Do you have any of your own?

• Can you tell me any other
• Idioms that you can
• think of that you have used?

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Are Folk Tale Characters Good or Bad?

• Are the characters in a folk tale good, bad, or
  both?
• How would you define good?
• How would you define bad?

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Are Folk Tale Characters Good or Bad? (cont.)

• When looking just at the pictures in the book,
  can you point out the good characters and the
  bad characters?
• Who are they?
• What do you think their names are?

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Homework

• Define each of the vocabulary words in your
  notebook.
• I will check it in class tomorrow.
• We will also go over the definitions that you
  found!