Many famous folktales and children’s stories describe what it would be like to be very large or very small.

Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack in American folklore. He became famous for his great strength and incredible logging feats. He dug Puget Sound in Washington to float huge logs to the mill, and scooped out the Great Lakes to provide drinking water for his giant blue ox, Babe.

Thumbelina is a character in a European folktale that is very small. Her cradle is a walnut shell. She floats down a river on a leaf and is taken captive by a crow.

Gulliver travels to the land of the Lilliputians, a race of very tiny people. He is captured while he is sleeping and held down by ropes. They are amazed by his size and strength, and by how much he eats.

Imagine a character that is either very large or very small. Choose and appropriate scale factor and use proportions to calculate the size of your character. Use the same scale factor to calculate the size of three ordinary objects to be used in unusual ways by the character. Document your calculations using proportions.

Write an original story about the character.

Your story should include the following elements:

1. A description of the size and scale factor of the main character

2. A creative or descriptive name for the main character

3. At least three ordinary objects that this character could use, and what each would be used for

4. At least one "adventure" related to the size of the main character

5. At least one illustration, use any medium

6. A creative title

7. Approximate length (including illustration) 2 pages (double spaced).

Create a Word document to record your fairy tale.

· Use WordArt to create an attractive and appropriate title at the top of the first page.

· Use the scanner or digital camera to insert your illustration at an appropriate point in the text. Re-size the picture so that it is approximately three inches in width.

· Set appropriate margins, and double-space the text.

· Print out the completed document in color.

Make an appointment with an elementary teacher to read your story to a primary-grade class (K,1,2,3).

Required elements (items 1-3 above) 20 points

Adventure (item 4) 10 points

Illustration (item 5) 5 points

Title (item 6) 5 points

Appropriate length (item 7) 5 points

Creativity 5 points

Communication: 10 points

Spelling

Punctuation

Capitalization

Sentence Structure

Paragraph Structure

Read to elementary class: 5 points

(by appointment only)

Document correctly formatted 5 points

Illustration correctly imported and sized 5 points

Turn in an electronic copy of your document 5 points

(Floppy disk, or email preferred; save onto the C: drive only if project does not fit on disk)

Checkpoints: 25 points

Scale factor calculations (5 pts) Due date:____________________

Rough draft (5 pts) Due date:____________________

Scan illustration (5 pts) Due date:____________________

Read to elementary class (5 pts) Due date:____________________

Total project turned in on time (5 pts) Due date:____________________

Turn in the following:

Scale factor calculations

Rough Draft

Illustration

Printout (color) of completed document

Electronic copy of document

Elementary teacher evaluation form

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