"Twelve Dancing Princesses" | Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Quiz and Activities for High School

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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. 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.