True Stories
Have your class list fairy tales such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk. Make sure that each story has at least two characters who are opposed to one another (Riding Hood and the Wolf; Cinderella and her stepmother; Jack and the giant, etc.)
Encourage students to share fairy tales that they are familiar with, including ones that are not traditional European fairy tales.
Work with the class to identify the different possible perspective in each story. Some may have just two possible points of view, while some may have more (for instance, in Jack and the Beanstalk the possible perspectives are Jack, his mother, the person who sells him the magic beans, and the giant.)
Use this as an opportunity to allow students to share fairy tale stories that not all their classmates may be familiar with.
Each group is to choose a story from those that the class has brainstormed and use it to make a stop-motion animation that portrays that story from a different perspective.
During the planning phase, have them think about ways that different people might in the story might see it differently.
For example, the giant in “Jack and the Beanstalk” might be a nice guy minding his own business who is robbed by Jack. The troll in “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” might be trying to earn a living by charging bridge tolls.
Make sure students use the story board from the Introduction to Stop-Motion Animation lesson to plan their films carefully.
Remind students of the devices you’ve learned about in other lessons, including:
With younger students you may want to make this a whole-class project instead.
If time is short, you may choose to have students draw or act out their stories instead of making stop-motion animations.
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something.
