Genre Study - Fairy Tales

This is a full unit of work for gifted students, written in accordance with the brand new NESA (NSW, Australian) English syllabus! It has been written for a ten-week term but can be compacted or may even take longer as it is rigorous and challenging in order to meet the needs of high potential/gifted students. It is written using Stage 3 and 4 outcomes yet could easily be adapted to Stage 5 as well.

In this unit, students will learn how the genre of Fairy Tales can be recognised by established codes and conventions that govern content and construction of literature and apply this knowledge when creating texts. They will identify core messages about social, personal and moral issues within and between texts, by analysing how the changes in Fairy Tales reflect the changes in society.

A full complement of Reading and Viewing and Writing and Responding activities are included, written using differentiation models including Bloom’s revised taxonomy and the Williams model of curriculum differentiation. A variety of text types are covered throughout the unit, most notably poetry, other literary descriptive texts and persuasive texts. The unit culminates in a ‘final task’, that will challenge gifted students to apply their understanding of the various interpretations of Fairy Tales reflect the changes of society by focusing on one particular Fairy Tale of interest.

Resources are provided by using a Google site developed by HPH.