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Good afternoon, and welcome back to The Great Escape.

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Today we're going to be talking about fractured fairy tales.

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And you might be asking yourself, well, what is a fractured fairy tale?

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And I hope that this egg imagery will help you understand what it is.

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A fractured fairy tale is taking an egg, which is a complete fairy tale,

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breaking it, scrambling it, and trying to put it back together a la Humpty Dumpty.

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And it's all for comedic effect.

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So what are the ways that we can fracture a fairy tale?

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Well, through subversion of expectations.

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They expect one thing and we give them the exact opposite.

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Maybe by saying one thing but meaning another, like an irony.

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Doing something completely unbelievable, crazy, absurd.

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Or by exaggerating, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, as you've seen in other units with hyperbole.

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So the original fractured fairy tales are from, like, 1959.

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That's the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, something my parents used to watch when they were kids.

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And we're going to see an example.

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And this example is called Leaping Beauty.

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Now, this is a play on words.

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You know that leaping means jumping.

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So the fractured fairy tale is going to have to do something with jumping.

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And what does leaping beauty sound like?

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Well, it sounds like sleeping beauty.

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So that's going to be the fairy tale that gets fractured.

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I would like you to watch this YouTube video after the presentation

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to see the way that Rocky and Bullwinkle fractured Sleeping Beauty.

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And then, of course, they're not the only ones who fractured fairy tales.

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From 1993, we have this book, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales.

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And the title character is based on the gingerbread man.

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So we'll see the funny way that that story has been changed also.

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And others within the Stinky Cheese Man collection, like the princess and the bowling ball.

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So in addition to these things, you're also going to have to do a presentation project

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that I have put on xLearning with a fairy tale that I have fractured.

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And after everything, it will be your turn.

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I will ask you to go to Classroom and find out which group you've been placed in with other classmates

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and which fairy tale you've been assigned.

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Then you'll need to click and read your fairy tale to get familiar with it.

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And tomorrow in class, you'll meet with your group members

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and talk about what happened in that fairy tale.

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Start getting some ideas on how to fracture it.

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All right, so see you tomorrow. Thanks a lot.