7th Grade Warren Students Write Fairy Tales In Class

by Mia Bivaletz

Students in Gina Banks’s 7th grade Language Arts classes wrote amazing fractured fairy tales.

They had to integrate real or imagined experiences within the constructs of existing fairy tales, resulting in updated versions.

Students had to follow the plot diagram, use descriptive language and expand upon sequential events with many details.

They also had to incorporate interesting dialogue into the narrative. Working in groups they completed a total of seven stories with titles such as “The Swaggy Duckling”, “Snow White and the Mega Dwarf”, “The Golden Hair”, and “The Three Little Koalas and the Big Bad Crocodile”.

The Chromebook initiative at Warren Middle School has benefited the students, as they were able to use Google Drive to allow multiple people to write, edit and revise.

“I was thrilled to see the students happily engaged in writing and able to let their creativity shine through,” said Mrs. Banks.

Next, her students will be reading The Giver in literature circles, as well as learning how to write a literary analysis using text citations.