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fairy
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(6/18/05 1:12 pm)
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Adolescents & Fairy Tales
I am currently researching/writing a unit for use in Middle School classes on "Reader-response and the Fairy Tale with Adolescents." (Education student)
I have to have the literary analysis part (R-R is my choice for this analysis)...but my passion lies with the "big self-learnings" that adolescents will derive from (re) reading some fairy tales.
I'd like ideas on applicable F.T.'s for this age group (12-14 yrs)...'in the middle'-transitioning themselves...I find several fine female examples...but alas, usually unnamed male examples. So far, for the male choices, I consider: Riquet a la houppe (I think it is "Ricky with a tuft") and Le Petit poucet ("Little thumbling" I believe). Did I mention it's all in French? (But doesn't have to be Fr. writers.) Length needs to be readable in a class time.
Thanks for you suggestions, ideas, critiques, direction...
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midori
snyder
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(6/18/05 5:53 pm)
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Re: Adolescents & Fairy Tales
What about Puss in Boots? Perrault has a version of it. Classic youngest son makingin his way in the world.
If you can use nonFrench stories, have a look at the Russian tales...Ivan and The Gray Wolf is a great story (you can find it in an Afanasev collection).
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DerekJ
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(6/19/05 1:20 am)
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Re: Adolescents & Fairy Tales
I'd second the Russian/E. Euro fairytale vote, if only in that they're not as immediately familiar, and the students would be reading many of them for the first time--
Seeing as the only way for the age group to analyze folktales from a pure literary and experiential viewpoint would be for the audience to start from a clean slate, without the existing preset-argument baggage of a familiar Grimm or Perrault tale.
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