Fairy+Tale+Monologue+Project

Once Upon a Fairy Tale is a book that was written by many famous Hollywood actors and illustrators. This book tells 4 different fairy tales from a first person perspective. In a very unique style of storytelling each character tells his/her portion of the story. A CD comes with the book allowing you to hear each actor read their monologue while looking at the beautiful illustrations.

This lesson is based on this book. After listening to the example below of __Little Red Riding Hood__, I assign each student to a role in a story, but I choose different fairy tales than are present in this book. Some examples: Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Each group will look at copies of the story and decide how they want to uniquely tell the story. What characteristics might make their character interesting? Each group must also decide who will tell which of the story and in what order the characters should read. In the past we have recorded on a cassette tape recorder and listened to the stories while looking at the illustrations that each student drew for his/her character. In recent years, we have uploaded the pictures and digitally told our stories through movie making software. An example of our students' work is below as well.


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