In the last weeks we have talked about fairy tales.
During the classes Raquel saw as different ways to work with the tales and how
different can be the versions depending on the authors and their personal
characteristics (religion, hobbies…).
In class we analyse the Cinderella’s tale by two
different authors: Grimms and Perrault, but we know to the Disney’s version. The
main differences between these stories are based in the life of the authors.
For example in Grimms’ story there are a lot of religious sense related with
Cinderella’s mother, in other way Perrault version has many aesthetic factors
like many details of clothes. The main differences between the two versions are
these ones:
Grimm
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Perrault
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-Aschenputtel.
-There are three dances.
-Mother grave.
-Condemn to the stepsisters.
-Gold slippers.
-Not hour.
-Aschenputtel’s stepmother cut the feet of
Aschenputtel’s stepsisters.
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-Cinderella.
-There
are two balls.
-Godmother.
-Forgive
stepsisters.
-Glass
slippers.
-Midnight.
-The
shoes don’t fit the stepsisters.
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But these differences appear in other fairy tales too
such as Little
Red Riding Hood that we studied the last year in Spanish Literature,
where in Perrault’s version Little Red Riding Hood goes to bed with the wolf,
it is a metaphor what means that the young women have to be careful with the
men. The differences between them are:
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Grimm
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Perrault
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- The mother advises to her to go through the wood
and do not stop.
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-The
mother only says to go to her grandmother house to bring her a cake and
butter.
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-Little Red Riding Hood does not find the path.
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-Little Red Riding Hood
meets the wolf, near the path.
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-The wolf asks some questions about her
grandmother to Little Red Riding Hood.
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-The
wolf says that it is going to go to see her grandmother too, and they can see
who will be the first go roundabout the wood, the wolf goes through the path.
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-Little Red Riding Hood does not come get into the
bed with the wolf.
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-The wolf says to Little
Red Riding Hood to come get into the bed.
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-The hunter discovers the wolf and kills it. He
opens the wolf stomach and save Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.
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-Little
Red Riding Hood is not saved.
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Here I add the links to the two different versions of Little Red Riding Hood.
Grimms’ version:
Perrault’s
version:
HOW CAN WE WORK FAIRY TALES IN CLASS?
Raquel has taught to us different ways to work with
the stories. In my last post I have written about role-play but these weeks we
have learnt other types to work with.
The frozen frames are
very funny. It is consisted to represent a scene of a tale but the people, who
represented it, must to be frozen, they cannot move. We can do the same that in
class and try to guess it or to work with different scenes of a tale and
represent it. A variant to frozen frames is to act when somebody says. This activity can be use in science class too, representing the different topics like planets or senses. On this
way we work with communication between the participants in the activity and
they can improvise various materials to make the activity more real.
Other way to work with is to tell the story as if they
were characters of a tale, taken to account the different feelings and
perspectives. They work their empathy and language.
As you have read we can work the stories in many
different ways, and we have to select what is the adequate to the age and
language of the students.
Hi Patri, I saw that in your last post you mentioned the main differences between the different versions of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. In my opinion is a good way to distinguish stories made for different ages or other public, because each author will write their version depending on what they have experienced, their religion, their education, their likes, and so on.
ReplyDeleteI think the fact that exist several versions of fairy tales is positive, because in this way children acquire more points of view and they can choose the version they prefer, depending on their likes or their religion.
Finally, I really liked your idea of making fairy tales in class, because with one movement can be know what type of tale and what version is; I really think it is an activity that promotes literature subject in class, because children have fun while they represent stories that they have read.