I hope you had a fun and restful holiday--I did!
Our next literature unit will be on The Fairy Tale--a genre that is as old as humankind, but was categorized during the Renaissance, and written down by people like William Shakespeare! Later, in the 1800s, people such as the Brothers Grimm collected and wrote down the fairy tales from their country of Germany. Others did the same with the fairy tales of Italy, Spain, England, Norway, and France--and even Russia. That is why we today have such a treasure-house of fairy tales to read and enjoy on film.
If you want to check out The Brothers Grimm, go to this website:
We will learn about the Elements of a Fairy Tale while we read and compare and contrast several stories. This week, all of our reading will take place in class, so all you need to do for homework is learn your spelling and vocabulary words, which are below.
This week, since you have no reading homework, you will need to be able to spell the word correctly, AND write the definitions (I won’t count off for spelling on the definitions, but please TRY and spell them correctly, too! If you do, there will be extra credit!)
1. entirely = completely
2. astonishment = sudden surprise
3. hesitation = to pause or delay
4. marriage = when two people become wedded to one another
5. Rumpelstiltskin = a character in a Grimm's fairy tale
6. decent = respectable
7. stallion = a male horse
8. lumbered = walked heavily
9. lassoed = roped
10. lariat = a lasso
