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By: Armindo Marvin Carlos Macanja Grade 5 Student Subject: English

This document discusses different types of folklore including myths, legends, fables, and fairy tales. Myths are stories created by early cultures to explain aspects of the natural world. Legends are exaggerated stories about real people. Fables use animal characters to teach moral lessons. Fairy tales use magic and include good and evil characters, often beginning with "Once upon a time." These forms of folklore are passed down through oral tradition to teach, entertain, and share cultural beliefs.

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By: Armindo Marvin Carlos Macanja Grade 5 Student Subject: English

This document discusses different types of folklore including myths, legends, fables, and fairy tales. Myths are stories created by early cultures to explain aspects of the natural world. Legends are exaggerated stories about real people. Fables use animal characters to teach moral lessons. Fairy tales use magic and include good and evil characters, often beginning with "Once upon a time." These forms of folklore are passed down through oral tradition to teach, entertain, and share cultural beliefs.

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By: Armindo Marvin Carlos Macanja

Grade 5 Student
Subject: English
 Stories
 Oral histories
 Shared Cultures
 Myths are stories made by people who wanted to explain
how or why the world works (How can we be? How should
we treat others? Why events happen?)
 Myths are a sort of ancients vision of science, used to
explain why natural events occurred.
 The myths are passed from parents to their kids, and also
these kids when grown up passed also to their own Kids.
 The word myth comes from ancient Greek “mythos”
meaning a word of mouth.
 Myths were shared by groups around the world and became
a great part of their communities. Eg. Greek mythology
 Sometimes the myths were given importance so that people
used to celebrate them with big parties.
 Exagerated stories about real people
 Legends are about real people and what they
did.
 One of the most important characteristic of the
legends is that are exaggerated histories just to
make them interesting and exciting.
 Generally some of the facts are dramatically
changed in the person the legend is about
 Stories with morals
 Passed down
 Characters are animals that can talk
 Fables are also histories passed down.
 The objective is to teach a lesson.
 The main characteristic of the fables is that they
involve characters such as animals, plants or
other natural forces that can talk and act as
humans.
 For kids
 Revolve around magic
 Fairy tales are most popular in our days.
 Fairy tales are specifically written for kids.
 Fairy tales are often involved into magic events
 In these kind of stories there are always good
characters and evil characters.
 The fairy tales usually begin with a sentence
saying “Once upon in a time…”

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