WWW LESSON PLAN

ONCE UPON A TIME…

LEVEL	:	Form 4
TIME	:	30 minutes to one hour
AIMS	:	Obtain important information from various fairy tales and present the information to others orally and in writing.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

One computer per group of 2 – 3 students, with an Internet connection and a Web Browser.

Website : http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/index.shtml

PREPARATION:

1. Locate sites dedicated to fairy tales.
2. Prepare notes concerning narrative writing and fairy tales.
3. Using the information on the site, prepare a worksheet.

PROCEDURE:

1. Ask the students for the names of the fairy tales that they know and write them on the board.
2. Ask them what they usually obtain from reading fairy tales.
3. Explain to the students that the focus of the present lesson is obtaining important information from fairy tales and present their findings orally or through writing a narrative essay based on their chosen fairy tales.
4. Give the notes on narrative writing and fairy tales to the students. Explain what narrative writing is and the structure of narrative writing to the students.
5. Ask the students to go the chosen website. The students will have to choose the fairy tales available from the website. They can only choose fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen, Grimm’s’ Fairy Tales and Lewis Caroll. Give the worksheet prepared.
6. They will have to complete the worksheet by obtaining the important information from the fairy tales chosen by them. When all the students have finished, discuss their results. Deal with any vocabulary problems they encountered and discuss any unusual facts they learnt.

FOLLOW-UP:

1. Ask the students to rewrite in their own words in four paragraphs, the narration for the fairy tales chosen by them.
2. They will have to provide the moral of the story and present their story to the class.