Monday, February 28, 2011

Villain Point of View

As a writing assignment, my students took traditional fairy tales and wrote in the point of view of the villain from the fairy tale they selected. They added these as "letter to the editor" for the articles they were writing. Also, to add to their creativity, we took the tales (stories) and randomized the words to create symbols for each fairy tale. I'm posting a few examples of the images.

The finished articles had: letter to the editor, a retell of the fairytale and message of the story. They also had to make sure that the reader was able to infer what the articles were about just from the sub titles. This task covered many strategies....