-chapter book
This is a redone version of Sleeping Beauty that uses parts the traditional tale and changes it to make it funnier and more exciting for kids to read who have previously read Sleeping Beauty. It is a story within a story. Shrek, Donkey, and many other fairy tale creatures are talking and going about their day as normal, when Shrek begins to tell his tales to the other fairy tale creatures. He starts with the original story of Sleeping Beauty and changes the name to Sleeping Ugly. Details of the story start to change when Shrek says the lady gets woken up with a kiss but doesn't change how ugly she is. This causes a riot between the fairy tale creatures as they notice all the new details. Shrek explains that he doesn't like the original story and he thinks it's more exciting to change what happened and that's why he tells it this way. Even though Shrek's story was unusually different, he ended with "and they all lived happily ever after" just like most all fairy tales end.
Throughout the book Shrek tells the story by using poems for communication to tell what the characters said. This will help the students in my class realize how to incorporate dialogue into their stories, and also to show that poetry can occur in novels too. A follow-up activity would be to get each of the students to write 2 stanzas of their own poem to tell a story of their own.
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