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Once upon a time there was a young and wonderful girl named Cinderella. Cinderella lived with her parents in a big and modern city full of banks and multinationals. Her father was an employee in one of these firms, while her mother was a housewife. But suddenly the mother died and, after a few months, Cinderella’s father remarried with a woman who had 2 daughters, Anastacia and Drizella. The two sisters were wicked with poor Cindy and the stepmother treated her like a servant. In fact while the 3 newcomers enjoyed themselves, Cinderella had to clean the house, fix the lunch and the dinner, do the washing up and fulfil all their wish. One day the father returned home with a letter of the owner of the multinational where he worked. He invited all his employees and their families to a party for his son. Anastacia and Drizella were excited at the idea of meeting the young man, who was very handsome but also very rich and powerful.They ordered to Cinderella to sew new dresses, to clean the shoes and polish the jewels. As she was busy with all this work, the girl couldn’t make a dress for herself , so the night of the party she had to stay home. Cinderella was very sad and went up to the attic to look at all her mother’s photos. There, in an old trunk she found a beautiful white dress and the same shoes she had seen in the album of her parents’ marriage. She wore them and went to the party ,but she decided to return at midnight because she didn’t want to be discover by the stepmother. When the guest of honour saw Cinderella,he immediately fell in love with her and they talked and danced all the night until at midnight, Cinderella went away. The boy continued to think of her the following days and so did she. One day Cinderella went to meet her father at his office and the boy was there. They started to go out together and finally they got married and lived happily ever after.

Home	Written production short tales inspired by Cinderella *Cinderella in the city* Once upon a time there was a young and wonderful girl named Cinderella. Cinderella lived with her parents in a big and modern city full of banks and multinationals. Her father was an employee in one of these firms, while her mother was a housewife. But suddenly the mother died and, after a few months, Cinderella’s father remarried with a woman who had 2 daughters, Anastacia and Drizella. The two sisters were wicked with poor Cindy and the stepmother treated her like a servant. In fact while the 3 newcomers enjoyed themselves, Cinderella had to clean the house, fix the lunch and the dinner, do the washing up and fulfil all their wish. One day the father returned home with a letter of the owner of the multinational where he worked. He invited all his employees and their families to a party for his son. Anastacia and Drizella were excited at the idea of meeting the young man, who was very handsome but also very rich and powerful.They ordered to Cinderella to sew new dresses, to clean the shoes and polish the jewels. As she was busy with all this work, the girl couldn’t make a dress for herself , so the night of the party she had to stay home. Cinderella was very sad and went up to the attic to look at all her mother’s photos. There, in an old trunk she found a beautiful white dress and the same shoes she had seen in the album of her parents’ marriage. She wore them and went to the party ,but she decided to return at midnight because she didn’t want to be discover by the stepmother. When the guest of honour saw Cinderella,he immediately fell in love with her and they talked and danced all the night until at midnight, Cinderella went away. The boy continued to think of her the following days and so did she. One day Cinderella went to meet her father at his office and the boy was there. They started to go out together and finally they got married and lived happily ever after. C. Mauriello - V. De Nicola Fairymix Once upon a time there was a palace where Caterin lived with her stepmother Anna, and her stepsisters, Valentina and Beatrice. One day Caterina went to the forest and while she was picking up a rose, a thorn pricked her finger and she fell asleep. Seven dwarves (Cipriana, Chiara, Prando, Paolo, Alessandro, Andrea, Alberto) while walking cheerfully in the forest found Caterina asleep. The dwarves shook Caterina to wake her up and they led her to their little house. Chiara asked : "Who are you? Why were you sleeping in the forest?”- Caterina aswered “My name is Caterina and I’m Anna’s daughter. I was picking up a rose when a thorn pricked my finger and I fell asleep." Then Chiara said: "Ooh poor girl, do you want to come to Riccardo the prince’s with us?” - “oh yes, I do!” said Caterina happily. A few minutes later they were walking to the castle, singing their song "ehi oh”. They arrived at the castle, and the first people who Caterina met were the king and his councillior, Luca and Leonardo. Luca was so impressed by Caterina’s beauty that he thought that she could be an excellent partner for his son, Riccardo. In that moment Riccardo arrived and was love at the first sight. Riccardo and Caterina started to meet many times a week, but Beatrice and Valentina were so jealous and they wanted to keep Riccardo away from Caterina. One night, in fact, they kidnapped Riccardo from his castle and they took him into their palace, then they prepared a poison that trasformed Riccardo into a frog. Caterina cried so much and decided to go to her stepsisters to have Riccardo back, but when she saw him she cried out and prayed Valentina and Beatrice to transform back Riccardo into a man, but the stepsisters didn’t want to give her the antidote. In that moment the fairy Milella entered the room and stole the antidote from Valentina’s hands. So Riccardo drank the antidote , became a real man and married Caterina. Bissacco Elisa - Gebbani Rosella - Scarpa Caterina *The Ogres Revolt* Setting: -TIME: Past; -PLACES: The QuaterEarth; -PROTAGONIST: The ogres; -ANTAGONIST: The Humans; -MAGICAL ASSISTANT :Elves, Dragons, Nylo the warrior; Wizards; Once upon a time in the QuarterEarth there were two peoples: the ogres and the humans. Ogres were a pacific population but they were exploited by humans because they had to do heavy jobs. So they prepared a revolt with the dragons’ help. The humans fought against the ogres in a cruel war called the war of the QuarterEarth. The Elves helped the ogres but the humans were helped by two evil wizards. These wizards captured Ascaron, leader of the Elf army. So the ogre king ,Grunth, decided to send Nylo , the stronger warrior of his kingdom to save Ascaron. The warrior arrived in Craftentown, the capital of the human kingdom. Nylo looked for the Elves all day long, but he was not successful. Then the human king, Derunick, sent a letter where he said that if the Elves wanted their leader alive they had to go away from the QuarterEarth with the ogres. So Nylo returned to his kingdom with the Elf leader. He went to the king and told him all about the condition of the human king. So the ogres left QuarterEarth, but 1000 years later their anger induced all the ogre population to come back to QuarterEarth and invade all the human kingdom. From that moment everybody think that ogres are cruel and bad but they were actually a pacific and good population. Caraffa Raphael - Caruso Gianmarco -Giordano Carlotta - Serena Matteo *The fundamental elements of the Nature* Once upon a time, in a distant and unknown land, where there were wide lands with flowers and trees and a vast forest, the Elf people lived a peaceful life. They were ruled by the Emperor, who assured peace and welfare. Many animals and magical creatures lived in the forest and they were on good terms with the Elves. One bad day, the Emperor’s counsellor, called Crebon, who was a wicked and despicable wizard, with a big and merciless ogres’ army took control of the Elves’ empire. So the dark and the evil strength fell on the empire: the Emperor and the Elves were reduced to slavery, but only three elves managed to flee with the help of their dragons. The elves, who managed to flee from their empire, were three young and valiant friends: one was called Trian, one was called Treb and one, who was a beautiful girl, was called Triny. Their nickname was “The fantastic fellowship of the three T’s”. The dragons were spirited and playful and their mantles had different colours: Trian’s dragon was as blue as water and it was called Rain, Treb’s dragon was as green as nature and it was called Earth and Triny’s dragon had all the colours of the rainbow and it was called Sunny. After a long and tiresome journey through impervious and unexplored lands, the fantastic group of the three T’s arrived in the Dwarves’ kingdom with their dragons. There they received a hearty welcome from the Dwarves’ king. As a matter of fact, the Dwarves people were in debt to the Elves because the Dwarves’ king was rescued from the humans’ invasion by the Elves many years before. So the three elves found good shelter, where they could recover from the tiring trip and get organized to get their empire. They told the king what had happened in their empire and they asked him for help. But the king could not help them because he and his people were at war against the Demons. In spite of this, he gave arms to the three elves and their dragons and he gave each elf three magic swords with their dragons’ colours. Now the fantastic group of the three T’s was ready to leave for their empire. When they arrived in the lands of the empire, they found a waste land and inhabited by evil and ogres. They did not know what they could do. So they went to the forest to meet the Grand Master. He was the oldest and wisest tree among the supernatural creatures who lived in the forest. He stayed in the centre of the forest and, if you wanted to get to him, you had to face dangers and riddles. The three elves managed to meet the Grand Master and so they could ask him what happened when they were far from the empire: « The Evil strength got the upper hand of Good…I and the supernatural creatures of the forest did everything possible, but Crebon and his ogres’ army won…I could give you only these three magic stones, one for each of you: they’ll shed light when every hope is lost and the dark takes you over!» he said. Then Trian, Treb and Triny were ready to face their enemy… They went to Crebon and they challenged him to find the fundamental elements of Nature. A legend says that one day someone will find the fundamental elements of Nature in own earth with Spirit, Determination and Love and then the World will be in their hands. Crebon accepted the challenge. On the following day, Crebon and his ogres’ army and the three elves began to search for these elements. At sunset after many dangers the wizard with his army drew up on the top of a hill and the fantastic group of the three T’s with their dragons drew up on the top of opposite hill alone: both arrays found the place where the fundamental elements of Nature were hidden. Between the hills there was an extensive valley. The first to attack, was the wizard that created a deep abyss in the valley and the elves’ hill started to crumble: blazes and flares came from the abyss and darkness wrapped up everything. Trian, Treb and Triny lost every hope, but all at once they remembered what Grand Master had said and they took the stones. So, with the stones in one hand and the magic sword in the other hand, the elves and the dragons formed a group and an intense and powerful light invaded the empire, it destroyed the ogres’ army and Crebon and it lighted up the sky. After that the blazes and the flares were put out by the rain, the abyss was healed and the green of nature recovered the land of the empire. The Emperor and his people were free and peace and welfare dominated again. The elves’ dragons changed: Rain turned into the rain that put out the blazes and the flares; Earth turned into the green that healed the abyss and that recovered the lands; Sunny turned into the light that invaded the empire and that destroyed the wizard with his ogres’ army. The three elves were now the new lords of the World. But they gave up their power and they entrusted it to Nature, because the power of the World is too important and dangerous for three elves. Croce Roberta - Zennaro Beatrice - Pasqualetto Filippo - Flora Francesco *Cinderella 2* It’s the year 3000, in a small town there are two children who are very lively: Thomas and Jenny. They live with their uncle who is a scientist. One day, while they play at home,they find a strange machine - their uncle’s last invention. Then they decide to go inside it because they are very curious. After a few seconds the machine sends them to a world that they don’t know: the world of the fairy-tales. They are in Cinderella’s story. There they meet a fairy. She asks them to take the magic wand because she wants to go on holiday. So they decide to enjoy themselves with the magic wand. After a while they meet Cinderella who is disperated because she wants to go to the dance in the prince’s castle, but she hasn’t got a dress. So Thomas and Jenny, remembering Cinderella’s story, transform her in a pretty princess using the magic wand. But they don’t remember to tell her that at midnight she has to return home because the enchantment finishes. So she goes to the castle, she meets the prince and they fall in love. But at midnight Cinderella turns into a horrible monster because Thomas and Jenny have mistaken the formula. So the monster begins to break everything and kidnaps the prince. Everybody try to escape, only the king tries to save his son. But fortunatly Thomas and Jenny arrive and when they see the monster, with the magic wand, they trasform him in Cinderella again. So the prince is free and embraces Cinderella who doesn’t remember anything. Then Thomas and Jenny give back the magic wand to the fairy and with her help they return to their world and everybody live happly ever after. back	The schools involved
*units*	- Liceo Scientifico Statale “Giordano Bruno”
-IDENTITY	- Istituto comprensivo “Antonio Gramsci”
- MITHS, LEGENDS, FAIRY TALES	- Escola Secondaria “Dona Felipa de Lencastre”
- CROSSING BORDERS	- Gymnazium Poprad
- PORTFOLIO & DOSSIER	- Lycée Europeenne Montebello
LINKS	- XX Liceum Ogòinoksztalcace im Zbigniewa Herbekta

Once upon a time there was a palace where Caterin lived with her stepmother Anna, and her stepsisters, Valentina and Beatrice.
One day Caterina went to the forest and while she was picking up a rose, a thorn pricked her finger and she fell asleep. Seven dwarves (Cipriana, Chiara, Prando, Paolo, Alessandro, Andrea, Alberto) while walking cheerfully in the forest found Caterina asleep. The dwarves shook Caterina to wake her up and they led her to their little house. Chiara asked : "Who are you? Why were you sleeping in the forest?”- Caterina aswered “My name is Caterina and I’m Anna’s daughter. I was picking up a rose when a thorn pricked my finger and I fell asleep." Then Chiara said: "Ooh poor girl, do you want to come to Riccardo the prince’s with us?” - “oh yes, I do!” said Caterina happily. A few minutes later they were walking to the castle, singing their song "ehi oh”. They arrived at the castle, and the first people who Caterina met were the king and his councillior, Luca and Leonardo. Luca was so impressed by Caterina’s beauty that he thought that she could be an excellent partner for his son, Riccardo. In that moment Riccardo arrived and was love at the first sight. Riccardo and Caterina started to meet many times a week, but Beatrice and Valentina were so jealous and they wanted to keep Riccardo away from Caterina. One night, in fact, they kidnapped Riccardo from his castle and they took him into their palace, then they prepared a poison that trasformed Riccardo into a frog. Caterina cried so much and decided to go to her stepsisters to have Riccardo back, but when she saw him she cried out and prayed Valentina and Beatrice to transform back Riccardo into a man, but the stepsisters didn’t want to give her the antidote. In that moment the fairy Milella entered the room and stole the antidote from Valentina’s hands. So Riccardo drank the antidote , became a real man and married Caterina.

Setting:
-TIME: Past;
-PLACES: The QuaterEarth;
-PROTAGONIST: The ogres;
-ANTAGONIST: The Humans;
-MAGICAL ASSISTANT :Elves, Dragons, Nylo the warrior; Wizards;

Once upon a time in the QuarterEarth there were two peoples: the ogres and the humans. Ogres were a pacific population but they were exploited by humans because they had to do heavy jobs. So they prepared a revolt with the dragons’ help. The humans fought against the ogres in a cruel war called the war of the QuarterEarth. The Elves helped the ogres but the humans were helped by two evil wizards. These wizards captured Ascaron, leader of the Elf army. So the ogre king ,Grunth, decided to send Nylo , the stronger warrior of his kingdom to save Ascaron. The warrior arrived in Craftentown, the capital of the human kingdom.
Nylo looked for the Elves all day long, but he was not successful. Then the human king, Derunick, sent a letter where he said that if the Elves wanted their leader alive they had to go away from the QuarterEarth with the ogres.
So Nylo returned to his kingdom with the Elf leader.
He went to the king and told him all about the condition of the human king.
So the ogres left QuarterEarth, but 1000 years later their anger induced all the ogre population to come back to QuarterEarth and invade all the human kingdom.
From that moment everybody think that ogres are cruel and bad but they were actually a pacific and good population.

Caraffa Raphael - Caruso Gianmarco -Giordano Carlotta - Serena Matteo

The fundamental elements of the Nature

Once upon a time, in a distant and unknown land, where there were wide lands with flowers and trees and a vast forest, the Elf people lived a peaceful life.
They were ruled by the Emperor, who assured peace and welfare.
Many animals and magical creatures lived in the forest and they were on good terms with the Elves.
One bad day, the Emperor’s counsellor, called Crebon, who was a wicked and despicable wizard, with a big and merciless ogres’ army took control of the Elves’ empire. So the dark and the evil strength fell on the empire: the Emperor and the Elves were reduced to slavery, but only three elves managed to flee with the help of their dragons.
The elves, who managed to flee from their empire, were three young and valiant friends: one was called Trian, one was called Treb and one, who was a beautiful girl, was called Triny. Their nickname was “The fantastic fellowship of the three T’s”.
The dragons were spirited and playful and their mantles had different colours: Trian’s dragon was as blue as water and it was called Rain, Treb’s dragon was as green as nature and it was called Earth and Triny’s dragon had all the colours of the rainbow and it was called Sunny.
After a long and tiresome journey through impervious and unexplored lands, the fantastic group of the three T’s arrived in the Dwarves’ kingdom with their dragons. There they received a hearty welcome from the Dwarves’ king. As a matter of fact, the Dwarves people were in debt to the Elves because the Dwarves’ king was rescued from the humans’ invasion by the Elves many years before. So the three elves found good shelter, where they could recover from the tiring trip and get organized to get their empire. They told the king what had happened in their empire and they asked him for help. But the king could not help them because he and his people were at war against the Demons. In spite of this, he gave arms to the three elves and their dragons and he gave each elf three magic swords with their dragons’ colours. Now the fantastic group of the three T’s was ready to leave for their empire.
When they arrived in the lands of the empire, they found a waste land and inhabited by evil and ogres.
They did not know what they could do. So they went to the forest to meet the Grand Master.
He was the oldest and wisest tree among the supernatural creatures who lived in the forest. He stayed in the centre of the forest and, if you wanted to get to him, you had to face dangers and riddles. The three elves managed to meet the Grand Master and so they could ask him what happened when they were far from the empire: « The Evil strength got the upper hand of Good…I and the supernatural creatures of the forest did everything possible, but Crebon and his ogres’ army won…I could give you only these three magic stones, one for each of you: they’ll shed light when every hope is lost and the dark takes you over!» he said. Then Trian, Treb and Triny were ready to face their enemy…
They went to Crebon and they challenged him to find the fundamental elements of Nature.
A legend says that one day someone will find the fundamental elements of Nature in own earth with Spirit, Determination and Love and then the World will be in their hands.
Crebon accepted the challenge.
On the following day, Crebon and his ogres’ army and the three elves began to search for these elements. At sunset after many dangers the wizard with his army drew up on the top of a hill and the fantastic group of the three T’s with their dragons drew up on the top of opposite hill alone: both arrays found the place where the fundamental elements of Nature were hidden. Between the hills there was an extensive valley.
The first to attack, was the wizard that created a deep abyss in the valley and the elves’ hill started to crumble: blazes and flares came from the abyss and darkness wrapped up everything. Trian, Treb and Triny lost every hope, but all at once they remembered what Grand Master had said and they took the stones. So, with the stones in one hand and the magic sword in the other hand, the elves and the dragons formed a group and an intense and powerful light invaded the empire, it destroyed the ogres’ army and Crebon and it lighted up the sky. After that the blazes and the flares were put out by the rain, the abyss was healed and the green of nature recovered the land of the empire.
The Emperor and his people were free and peace and welfare dominated again.
The elves’ dragons changed: Rain turned into the rain that put out the blazes and the flares; Earth turned into the green that healed the abyss and that recovered the lands; Sunny turned into the light that invaded the empire and that destroyed the wizard with his ogres’ army.
The three elves were now the new lords of the World. But they gave up their power and they entrusted it to Nature, because the power of the World is too important and dangerous for three elves.

Croce Roberta - Zennaro Beatrice - Pasqualetto Filippo - Flora Francesco

Cinderella 2

It’s the year 3000, in a small town there are two children who are very lively: Thomas and Jenny.
They live with their uncle who is a scientist. One day, while they play at home,they find a strange machine - their uncle’s last invention. Then they decide to go inside it because they are very curious. After a few seconds the machine sends them to a world that they don’t know: the world of the fairy-tales.
They are in Cinderella’s story. There they meet a fairy. She asks them to take the magic wand because she wants to go on holiday. So they decide to enjoy themselves with the magic wand. After a while they meet Cinderella who is disperated because she wants to go to the dance in the prince’s castle, but she hasn’t got a dress. So Thomas and Jenny, remembering Cinderella’s story, transform her in a pretty princess using the magic wand. But they don’t remember to tell her that at midnight she has to return home because the enchantment finishes. So she goes to the castle, she meets the prince and they fall in love. But at midnight Cinderella turns into a horrible monster because Thomas and Jenny have mistaken the formula. So the monster begins to break everything and kidnaps the prince. Everybody try to escape, only the king tries to save his son. But fortunatly Thomas and Jenny arrive and when they see the monster, with the magic wand, they trasform him in Cinderella again. So the prince is free and embraces Cinderella who doesn’t remember anything. Then Thomas and Jenny give back the magic wand to the fairy and with her help they return to their world and everybody live happly ever after.

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