1. BELL RINGER
On a separate piece of paper, define the following in your own words:
Culture
Exaggerate
Imitate
Influence
Generation

2. Answers To affect others’ views or actions
To speak of something being greater than what it is.
Relating to the customs or beliefs of a group of people
To copy or follow the example of
A group of people born and living around the same time.

3. Myths, Legends, Fables, Tall Tales and Fairytales
and Other Traditional Tales!

4. FOLKTALES
Traditional tales based on the traditions and beliefs of people
Were originally told orally
Usually teach a life lesson or moral
Often use animal characters to symbolize or represent human qualities

5. KINDS OF FOLKTALES Myths Legends Tall Tales Fables Fairy Tales
Include gods & goddesses, superhuman and heroes
Explain natural events
Magical creatures
Teach a lesson
Based on real people who may lived a long time ago
Tells about their heroic actions or deeds
Exaggerated
Main character must solve a problem
Superhuman ability
Funny
Animals act like people
3 or fewer characters
Ends with a lesson or moral
Aesop wrote many fables
Royalty
Magical elements
Once upon a time
Happily ever after
Often from Europe

6. EXAMPLES OF FOLKTALES Myths Legends Tall Tales Fables Fairy Tales
Midas touch
Zeus
Demeter and Persephone
Clash of the Titans
King Arthur
Robin Hood
Johnny Apple-seed
Trojan Horse
St. Patrick
Paul Bunyan
Pecos Bill
Annie Oakley
Davy Crockett
Tortoise and the Hare
Fox and the Crow
Ant and the Grasshopper
Cinderella
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Little Mermaid
Goldilocks and the Three Bears

7. What are myths?
Myths are stories that try to explain how our world works and how we should treat each other. They are usually set in times long ago, before history as we know it was written.
People have always asked questions like “How did our world come to be?” or “Why is the ocean blue?” Some myths answered these questions.

8. What are legends?
Legends are also fictional stories, but they are different from myths. Myths are about how the natural world works, and are set in an ancient time.
Legends are based on real people who lived in more recent times and are mentioned in history. Legends are told for a purpose and are based on facts, but they are not completely true.

9. What are fables?
A fable is another type of story, also passed down from generation to generation and told to teach a lesson about something.
A fable usually ends with a moral, or a short sentence with a lesson about life.

10. What are fables?
Fables are often about animals, plants, and natural forces like thunder or wind, that can talk and act like people.
The most famous fables were written by a man from ancient Greece called Aesop. We know them as Aesop’s Fables, and he wrote more than 600 of them. The story of The Tortoise and the Hare was written by him.

11. What are fairy tales?
Fairy tales are stories written specially for children, often about magical characters such as elves, fairies, goblins and giants. Sometimes the characters are animals.

12. Guess the Folktale

13. What is the difference?
Using the Venn Diagram, write the similarities and differences between two folktales.

14. The End