Learning Goals
Students will be able to retell the chosen fairy tale and folktale version with key details and central message or lesson.
Students will be able to compare and contrast characters’ adventures and experiences across two versions of the same story.
Students will be able to pose questions about witness statements and story sources to decide what is fact and what is fiction.
Students will be able to support a claim about what happened in the fairy tale using story evidence and relevant details.
Students will be able to speak audibly in coherent sentences while taking on attorney and witness roles during the mock trial.
Students will be able to listen to classmates, revise their testimony or speaking points, and reflect on how their perspective changed.
Products
Individual Fairy Tale Evidence Log and Oral Testimony
Each student creates a short evidence log with pictures, labels, and simple sentences that shows their claim, evidence, and counterpoint from the chosen fairy tale. Students then give a brief oral testimony explaining their position with at least one quoted or paraphrased story detail.
Class Mock Trial and Fairy Tale Courtroom Gallery Walk
Teams present a live mock trial in which prosecution and defense use individual research to argue different perspectives on the same fairy tale event. The class also hosts a courtroom gallery walk with witness statements, visual evidence cards, and a concluding synthesis of where the strongest evidence lies.
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