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| Ms. Moore's favorite retelling is "Ever After," starring Drew Barrymore. Photo from thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com. |
Retelling - Room 15
A long time ago, there was a princess named Mozzarella. (NOTE: I had to clarify at this point that we were retelling the traditional story v. making up a completely new version.) She was being treated badly because her father died. She had a stepmother who was a grumpy witch, and her stepsisters treated her like a maid. One day, there was a fairy nana who told her to go to this really crazy dance that invitations had came for. But the very mean stepmother wouldn't let her go. But her stepsisters were allowed to go.
While M. was doing her chores, the mice and the birds made her this really beautiful dress. Then when she came downstairs with a beautiful dress, the stepmother and stepsisters tore it apart because they were jealous of it.
After that, she ran back up to the attic to do some chores. But she was tearing up. So then the magical fairy nana arrived again and made her a really really pretty orange dress to go with her name. Then she sent her to the ball in a big meatball. When they got there, the prince saw M. and asked her to dance.
When it became midnight, all of a sudden, she had to run out, and her orange slipper came off. The fairy nana's magic powers would only last until then.
When the slipper came off, the prince took it and wanted to find its true owner, so he went searching in the village. He met all these wonderful girls, but none of them fit the magic slipper. So then he came to a big old dusty house and went inside.
The stepsisters were there, along with the stepmother, looking really excited to see him. He tried each person, but it didn't fit. Then M. came down and tried it on, and it fit. Then M and the prince got married and lived happily ever after.
Retelling - Room 14
Once upon a time there was a girl named Ella. She had very slim toes. Her stepsisters and her stepmother were bullying her and making her do all the chores and not helping. The three of them started to turn into real brats. They were fighting and giving each other bloody noses and kicking each other in the face.
They called Ella "Cinderella" instead of her real name because she cleaned the fireplace and always got cinders all over her.
They all wanted to go to a dance. When the sisters ripped her dress, C. went outside and cried. Then her fairy godmother came and gave her a pumpkin carriage and a beautiful dress with glass slippers. All the magic wore off at midnight
As C. got to the palace, she saw the prince out back having a war with one of his servants. When she went to the dance, she found a man who she thought was just a regular pedestrian, but realized that he was the prince.
Time was up! She lost a shoe and ran away. The prince ran after her but didn't find her. Then he had every girl try on the shoe.
He searched around and around the land. Finally, at the stepmother's house, the stepsisters cut off their feet to fit into the shoe and marry the prince. So C. had to see if the shoe would fit her. It fit her! Then C. and the prince lived happily ever after.
They called Ella "Cinderella" instead of her real name because she cleaned the fireplace and always got cinders all over her.
They all wanted to go to a dance. When the sisters ripped her dress, C. went outside and cried. Then her fairy godmother came and gave her a pumpkin carriage and a beautiful dress with glass slippers. All the magic wore off at midnight
As C. got to the palace, she saw the prince out back having a war with one of his servants. When she went to the dance, she found a man who she thought was just a regular pedestrian, but realized that he was the prince.
Time was up! She lost a shoe and ran away. The prince ran after her but didn't find her. Then he had every girl try on the shoe.
He searched around and around the land. Finally, at the stepmother's house, the stepsisters cut off their feet to fit into the shoe and marry the prince. So C. had to see if the shoe would fit her. It fit her! Then C. and the prince lived happily ever after.
Summarizing
After we retold Cinderella in multiple paragraphs, it was time to summarize it in a couple of sentences. The method I taught the 4th graders is Somebody Wanted But So Then. Here are some of the summaries they came up with:
Wanted her slipper back
But the prince had it.
So he went looking for the owner.
Then he found her.
The stepmother and stepsisters
Wanted to be rich.
But the prince would only marry whoever fit the shoe.
So they cut off parts of their feet.
Then they still didn't fit.
Cinderella
Wanted to go to a dance,
But her mean stepmother and stepsisters kept stopping her.
So she went outside crying.
Then her fairy godmother gave her a magical dress and shoes.
The fairy godmother
Wanted to give Cinderella a pumpkin carriage to get to the ball,
But the magic would only last until midnight.
So she gave C. a warning.
Then C. went to the ball with her magical items.
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