Stories from Different Cultures: Recreations (Double-Lesson!)

These interesting and stimulating resources enable students to read and understand a number of texts from different cultures. Students learn about different countries and their social and historical traditions. Students also learn to recreate texts, honing their knowledge of text content, language, and structure choices, whilst simultaneously building their imaginative writing skills. There are easily enough resources here for 2 lessons, at the very least.

The visually engaging, comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the following learning journey:
- Learning about the cultures of different countries where the short stories originated;
- Reading and understanding the short stories;
- Collaborating in teams in order to analyse the stories in terms of content, language, and structure;
- Understanding the key term 'recreations' and evaluating two recreations of a famous fable;
- Planning and writing their own recreation of one of the texts from different cultures;
- Peer-assessing the recreation attempts of their partner.

Provided in this resource pack is everything that you need to simply print and teach, including:
- Comprehensive PowerPoint presentation;
- Countries fact-sheets
- 4x short stories (The Island of the Sun - China, Narcissus and Echo - Greece, The Little Beggar - Iraq, and The Princess of Riddles - Portugal.)
- Mind-map activity template;
- Recreations planning template;
- Learning objectives to stick in.

All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slide.