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Checklist:
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Directions:
Choose Folklore category for story: origin story, trickster tale, legend, fairy tale,
tall tale, or myth. Refer to page 652 for guidance.
Read Writing Workshop Part 1: Modern Folktale page 676-679
Brainstorm and begin planning folktale
Read Writing Workshop Part 2: Writing a Modern Folktale page 724-729
Review checklist on the bottom of the story map.
Edit and revise folktale based on the rubric. Remember that the purpose of
folklore is to educate, entertain, or preserve a culture’s shared history.
Common Beginnings
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The play begins with
"Once upon a time…"
"A long, long time ago..."
and it is set in the past.
Characters
The play has strongly good
or evil characters and at
least one good character
with actions that support
those characteristics.
The story is set in the past The play has a good
character and an evil
character.
Magical Occurrence
Resolution
The magical occurrence will
be an integral part of the plot
with characters involved with
the magic.
The play ends with
characters resolving
their problems, being
rewarded/ punished and
a lesson or moral.
Something magical occurs, it Characters resolve their
may relate to the plot.
problems and live
happily ever after.
The play has either a good Something magic occurs.
character or an evil
character.
The play does not begin The roles of the characters No magic occurs.
with "Once upon a
are undefined.
time…" etc. and is not set
in the past.
The characters live
happily ever after.
There is no apparent
ending to the story.
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