Autobiography, Folktales

Types of Stories
Lim Chai Ling Niwahsinee Adaikalam Yuhasini Mari Ain Rahman
Biography
Definitions
The story of a person's life, written by another is your story as told by someone else
Records of life events, memories, thoughts and lessons learned. Experiences and observations of them that make each story unique. Typically encompasses one's entire life and is full of memories from childhood through later stages. It usually flows chronologically.
Are usually about famous, or infamous people, but a biography of an ordinary person can tell us a lot about a particular time and place. They are often about historical figures, but they can also be about people still living.
Characteristics of Good Biography for Young Learners

Simple Easy to read Accurate Complete Compelling biographies of historic people Researched Unbiased
Provide activities that reinforce and assess what a student has read. Feature the things that kids really want to know, such as what that person was like as a child and what obstacles they overcame to accomplish their achievements.
Autobiography
Definition
The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts states "an autobiography is a person's own biography, or written account of his or her life, distinguished from the journal or diary by being a connected narrative, and from memoirs by dealing less with with contemporary events and personalities".
Characteristics of an Autobiography
1. The main character is the author 2. The story of a persons life written by that person. 3. Recounts the key incidents in the writers life
4. Describes major influences (people, events,

places) on the writer
5. The story is told from the subjects point of
view, no people need to be interviewed.

6. Describes interactions between the writer and significant people in his or her life 7. Reveals the writers feelings, reactions, values, and goals
Examples of Autobiographical books for children

1) More About Boy by Roald Dahl the expanded story of Roald Dahl's childhood. Dahl's adventures and misadventures during his school years are crowded with people as strange and wonderful as any character he created and are as exciting and full of the unexpected as his celebrated fiction.
Bill Peet : An Autobiography

the story of Peets life told in chronological order without chapter divisions. It begins with his first memories in Grandview, Indiana, during World War I. This section tells of his move to Indianapolis to live with his grandmother, the violent relationship between his parents, his first artistic efforts, his feelings for the environment, his experiences at school, and the early reading that became the foundation for his later writing.
Folktales (Folklore/mythology, Fables)
Folktale
A folktale is a fictitious story told to amuse and amaze the listeners. The action takes place in a far-off time and place : Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom... These stories feature kings and princesses, giants and dragons, fairies and sorcerers, magical objects and talking animals. Like the traditional folksongs, the folktales came from France and were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation along the banks of le Dtroit.
Everyone who tells a folktale tells it in his or her own fashion/style. Therefore, each version is a little different from all the other versions. The details change and evolve, but the core of the story remains the same. Two of the folktales Cinderella and The Fisherman and His Wife are found all over the western world. You can see how they were told in some of the Detroit River communities.
Folklore
Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioural example. Every group with a sense of its own identity shares, as a central part of that identity, folk traditionsthe things that people traditionally believe. Examples: (planting practices, family traditions, and other elements of worldview), do (dance, make music, sew clothing), know (how to nurse an ailment, how to prepare barbecue), make (architecture, art, craft), and say (personal experience stories, riddles, song lyrics).
Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. Folklore can contain religious or mythic elements, it equally concerns itself with the sometimes ordinary traditions of everyday life.
Mythology
The word "myth" comes from the Greek word mythos, which means a spoken or written story. The purpose of a myth is to explain human experience. Many events in a myth are not realistic or based on fact, since the message communicated by the story is more important than telling about an actual event. Because all groups of people have myths, and often myths are associated with religion, the stories have been passed down through the ages to become the basis of a society. A collection of myths is called a "mythology."
People study mythology because the stories provide a way of understanding ancient cultures. Ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Aztecs, and Mayas, created myths to explain many aspects of life: how they came into existence as a people; the reasons for good and evil; the seasons; the weather; and the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. Because science as a mode of inquiring about the natural world did not yet exist, ancient peoples used myths to explain the natural world. In a very broad sense, the word mythology can refer to any traditional story.
Fables
A fable is a brief fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson. A fable is explained as a short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like human beings, or a story about legendary persons and exploits.
Examples of fables are those of Aesop's Fables with more than 600 narratives, including "The Goose with the Golden Eggs" and "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing." The word fable is derived from fabula, which is Latin for 'discourse', and is used in literary criticism to refer to the actual events that take place in a narrative. "The Lion King" is another notable fable.
Legend
Definition
A legend is an unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historic a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events or noun: brief description accompanying an illustration Passed down by the elders
Example
Puteri Gunung Ledang (Malaysia) Mount Mayon (Philippine) King Arthur (famous western)
Parable
Definition
A parable is a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. Stories that use symbolism to convey a moral message. Some famous examples can be found in the bible.
Example
Stories like Goldilocks could be seen as a parable because it is attempting to teach a moral message that breaking and entering is wrong.
References
Mitchell, D. (2003). Childrens Literature: An Invitation To The World. US: Allyn and Bacon
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_parable_and_leg end_mean_the_same_thing#ixzz203KIZH8f

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Types of Stories

Lim Chai Ling Niwahsinee Adaikalam Yuhasini Mari Ain Rahman

Characteristics of Good Biography for Young Learners

4. Describes major influences (people, events,

5. The story is told from the subjects point of

view, no people need to be interviewed.

Examples of Autobiographical books for children

Bill Peet : An Autobiography

Folktales (Folklore/mythology, Fables)

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