Process
Follow the steps below to complete the WebQuest. Remember to use your check-list and mark off the items that you have completed. Make sure that you have completed all parts of a step before moving on to the next one.
Step 1: NAME THAT TEAM
1. Give your assigned Story Time group a name (your teacher will assign you to a group).
2. Decide your jobs:
Captain: keeps everyone on the right track and reports (shares) the groups story at the end of the task.
Navigator: navigates the internet, clicks on links, gets around the websites
Recorder 1: types all information on the websites
Recorder 2: writes information with paper and pencil
Step 2: Define Fable and Folktale
1. Open a new internet window. You will need to have two windows open.
2. Make a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Fables and Folktales at
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/venn-diagram-circles-30006.html.
Click on the Get Started tab. Be sure to name your Venn Diagram. Label one circle "Fables" and the second circle "Folktales". Now print your Venn Diagram.
3. View the following links to complete your Venn Diagram. Record information in the Venn to show how Fables and Folktales are alike and different.
http://www.mikids.com/FolkFairyTales.htm
http://www.worldoftales.com/folktales.html
Step 3: The Tortoise and The Hare
A man named Aesop was a famous story teller. He wrote many of the Fables we read today. Watch one of his most famous Fables, The Tortoise and The Hare.
Step 4: Fables and Folktales
1. Choose 4 Fables and 4 Folktales to read from the list below. You may also search to see if you can find a video of the story to watch. Take turns reading the stories.
FABLES:
http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/aesop.htm
http://www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page1.htm
FOLKTALES:
http://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html
http://worldoftales.com/Native_American_folktales.html
Step 5: My Story, Our Story
Now that you know all about Fables and Folktales, how they are alike and different, and have read several examples of each type of story, it is time to get busy and write your New story. As a group, write a new Fable or Folktale. Your Recorder #2 will write the story on paper. If you choose to type the story, your Recorder #1 will do so in Microsoft Word. Think about these questions as you work together to write your story:
1. What kind of characters do we want to create?
2. What lesson or moral do we want to teach others?
3. What makes our story interesting or more fascinating than other stories?
Remember to follow the steps of Wonderful Writing posted on the wall or click on the following link to follow the steps of the writing process:
http://lewis.cpsb.org/faculty_pages/stacey.blanchard/THE%20FIVE%20STEPS%20OF%20THE%20WRITING%20PROCESS.htm
Step 6: PUBLISH
Almost finished! The final part of the WebQuest is to be done independently - work that is completed on your own. We will use the mobile laptop lab and our computer lab time to complete Step 6. Each of you will create a brochure of the story you wrote in your Story Time groups.
1. Click on the following link to begin your brochure:
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=
2. Click on the Brochure.
3. Type in the text of your story.
4. Add images.
6. Print your brochure.
5. TahDah!!! Share your FABULOUS FABLE or FOLKTALE with a friend and your book buddy!
Celebrate:
Now that you have completed your task, watch the video below of a story that I wrote and recorded with 3 little helpers.
1. Choose 4 Fables and 4 Folktales to read from the list below. You may also search to see if you can find a video of the story to watch. Take turns reading the stories.
FABLES:
http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/aesop.htm
http://www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page1.htm
FOLKTALES:
http://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html
http://worldoftales.com/Native_American_folktales.html
Step 5: My Story, Our Story
Now that you know all about Fables and Folktales, how they are alike and different, and have read several examples of each type of story, it is time to get busy and write your New story. As a group, write a new Fable or Folktale. Your Recorder #2 will write the story on paper. If you choose to type the story, your Recorder #1 will do so in Microsoft Word. Think about these questions as you work together to write your story:
1. What kind of characters do we want to create?
2. What lesson or moral do we want to teach others?
3. What makes our story interesting or more fascinating than other stories?
Remember to follow the steps of Wonderful Writing posted on the wall or click on the following link to follow the steps of the writing process:
http://lewis.cpsb.org/faculty_pages/stacey.blanchard/THE%20FIVE%20STEPS%20OF%20THE%20WRITING%20PROCESS.htm
Step 6: PUBLISH
Almost finished! The final part of the WebQuest is to be done independently - work that is completed on your own. We will use the mobile laptop lab and our computer lab time to complete Step 6. Each of you will create a brochure of the story you wrote in your Story Time groups.
1. Click on the following link to begin your brochure:
http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=110&title=
2. Click on the Brochure.
3. Type in the text of your story.
4. Add images.
6. Print your brochure.
5. TahDah!!! Share your FABULOUS FABLE or FOLKTALE with a friend and your book buddy!
Celebrate:
Now that you have completed your task, watch the video below of a story that I wrote and recorded with 3 little helpers.