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"Twelve Dancing Princesses" | Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Quiz and Activities for High School
Assess reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and facilitate analytical thinking with these activities covering the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," a narrative that reinforces themes of trickery and temerity. A plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) By engaging with these activities and assessments, students will:
Bolster vocabulary skills for high school.
Examine diction and use context clues to make inferences about characters (e.g., what the phrase capered about implies about the princesses).
Identify a key function of a given paragraph.
Apply knowledge of literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, hubris, imagery, metaphor, and more).
Articulate how dramatic irony is present in the story.
Identify a relevant theme.
Support claims and inferences with relevant textual evidence (e.g., defending the soldier's status as a sympathetic character).
Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:
Assess reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and facilitate analytical thinking with these activities covering the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," a narrative that reinforces themes of trickery and temerity. A plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) By engaging with these activities and assessments, students will:
Bolster vocabulary skills for high school.
Examine diction and use context clues to make inferences about characters (e.g., what the phrase capered about implies about the princesses).
Identify a key function of a given paragraph.
Apply knowledge of literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, hubris, imagery, metaphor, and more).
Articulate how dramatic irony is present in the story.
Identify a relevant theme.
Support claims and inferences with relevant textual evidence (e.g., defending the soldier's status as a sympathetic character).
Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:
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Assess reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and facilitate analytical thinking with these activities covering the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," a narrative that reinforces themes of trickery and temerity. A plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided.