Fairy Tales Written by my Students

Two weeks ago our lesson was about fairy tales and I asked my grade 3 students (US grade 9) to write their own fairy tale beginning with "Once upon a time" and ending with "They lived happily ever after." They were also supposed to write one line and then fold the paper so they would only be able to see the previous line. Well in true teaching fashion most of them failed to do either of these things but the final results are pretty funny.

By the way lots of them are unfinished because we ran out of time, and I left in all their spelling mistakes because that made them even cuter. The first one is obviously my favorite.

Common themes I notice in these stories which also resonate in Korean culture as a whole:
Finding humor in cross-dressing (uh Coffee Prince and You're Beautiful anyone? And have you ever watched a variety show on TV? Obviously Korean people think men dressing up as women is hilarious, and women pretending to be men is a good way to get a rich emotionally-retarded hot boyfriend.)
Intense worship of Korean pop stars and celebrities
Making jokes and threats about murder/ laughing at death
A very strange obsession with chicken and chicken restaurants
A love for The Simpsons (or just those ubiquitous Simpsons pencil cases....)

Once upon a time there was a girl whose father had died. A girl was so sad with father’s dying and she became crazy. Someday she go to hospital. Than the doctor is G-Dragon and nurse is Taeyang. GD and Taeyang is so handsome. So she crashed on them. But GD and Taeyang was a couple. So she give up and GD and Taeyang lived happily ever after.

Once upon a time, princess live in school. Her stepmother hates her princess. So, stepmother kill the princess. But she didn’t die. So she meet prince. But prince is very ugly. Also very very fat! So she and he don’t marry! Ending!

Once upon a time there was a handsome princess. He is blind man. And he can’t hear anything. But he want to find his soul-mate, so he go to club. But he doesn’t find his soul-mate. So he is enjoying with girls, so he go to night and he meeting very pretty and sexy girl, and he eat coffee and bread. After eating, he knew he didn’t have money. So he ran away in a hurry. When he caught by cheff, he realize that was just a dream.

Once upon a time, there was a Simson family in the castle. Mouse Simson, devil Simson, rabit Simson, Dog simson, duck simson. Simson family is, they are very foolish. So the rabit has green poison in her hands. So Duck give the drug to rabbit. So they [something in Korean] Duck simson is very ginious magichine. But duck simson very crazy. But duck simson is kill.

Once upon a time there were five handsome boys. They were famous singers of Korea. However, they were sick. Everyday a doctor comes to their house and cure them. Suddenly, doctor said “He is the dragon warrior!” and point at him. “Who is the dragon warrior?” said one of them. “It’s me!” another one said.

Once upon a time there was a foolish king. Foolish king likes beautiful princess. But she doesn’t like him. So, he is very sad. He go to heaven and they lived happily ever after.

Once upon a time, live dog. The dog could speaking. The dog was person that’s surprised? But the dog was foolish. So, the dog was kill oneself.

[Crossed out: “Once upon a time G-Dragon and Do-Kyung lived in the apartment”] Once upon a time, very very handsome boy and very very ugly girl lived in school. But girl is ugly. Small eyes, big nose, big mouse.

Once upon a time Dan Ah was live at the hell. She was break out at the hell. She met man and married. But she was divorce with her husband. She was died and she was return at the hell. And she’s husband lived happily ever after.

Once upon a time, the man lived in the palace. He was a servant of the king. He loves the king. But king has a wife. So he divorces. He open chicken store. He lived happily with the king forever.

Once upon a time there is ugly princess and king. But she is very happy. And she is very rich. But she is foolish. But she was brave. She went to the forest with a baseball bat to kill a monster that live in the forest. But she can’t kill a monster instead of she is died by a monster. The prince was sad. He dance, and princess alive. And they lived happily ever after.

Once upon a time there was a student named Jeong Su Yeon. He was a very bright student but very very ugly. So he went to a famous plastic surgery clinic. He became a very handsome and sexy guy. He married a beautiful woman. And they lived happily ever after.

Once upon a time there was the magic rabbit. She was 786 years old. She couldn’t eat carrots.

Once upon a time there was an ugly princess. And the princess was very fat and dirty. She loves flower. But flower hate her because she was ugly. Very very good happy.

Once upon a time, there lived a ugly mushroom prince of the Kiwaki Mushroom Kingdom. Among all the mushrooms, he was the richest mushroom. Because he had a lot of female mushrooms. And there was a mushroom-eating herbivore doe.

Once upon a time, beautiful princess live in [something Korean]. Princess is man. Princess eating ice cream. But unfortunately she is killed by prince. Because prince is evil stepmother. But

The prince fall in love to the princess. But the princess was not a girl; he was actually a boy. Princess weared nice suit. All of the women loved her. There was one of the girl who is envy her. And they lived happily ever after.

So, if you didn't understand before why/how much I love teaching at a girls middle school, after reading that first story, I think it is very clear.




K I really didn't want to turn my blog into a dumping ground for all this weird Korean stuff I'm obsessed with but this SunDaraGon stuff is pretty convincing! But IDK I'm still Team CLDragon. WHAT DO U THINK???!