Course Sample for Our Creative Composition Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

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Creative Composition
By Margaret Grimm

Week 1: Cinderella Folk Tales

Day 1:

Image Cinderella Fitting the Slipper.

What fairy tale is illustrated here?

What’s happening at this point in the plot? (Plot is the sequence of events in a story.)

List ten plot elements (parts that create the story) from the Cinderella tale that you remember; one element, for example, is a cruel stepmother and stepsisters.

Read the Perrault version of the Cinderella tale.

Which plot elements were in this version? Which were not?

Day 2:

Complete the chart provided as a notebook page listing the plot elements for the Perrault version of Cinderella.

Now, if the setting were changed to Native American Eastern Woodlands, how might the plot elements change? Give two suggestions.

Read the Native American Cinderella story, Mi’kmaq Cinderella.

Look at the plot elements’ chart, fill in the plot and setting variations found in the Mi’kmaq Cinderella.

How was the test of identity accomplished?

Were there any plot elements not included? Were there any new plot elements included instead?

More About Our Creative Composition Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

By studying the works of authors including Beatrix Potter, Aesop, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and others, homeschool elementary students learn about metaphor, meter, haiku, personification, and more. Numerous Creative Composition homeschool language arts writing assignments challenge students to use what they are learning in order to improve their own creative compositions.