FAIRY TALES!

FAIRY TALES!!

Hello everybody!

In my second blog, I am going to tell you how the stories experience changes according with the author who writes them like we worked in the practical class with the different versions of Cinderella.

DO YOU KNOW ... WHO ARE JACOB GRIMM AND WILHELM GRIMM?

They were two german brothers who are known by their tales for children. They were called the GRIMM BROTHERS.

They looked for new versions of the tales which were written by other authors to create different stories using the same characters (with new adventures and ends.)

The most famous tales of the Grimm brothers are:

-       Little Red Riding Hood

-        Rapunzel

-        Snow White.

-        Pulgarcito

DO YOU REMEMBER... WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE TALE?

My favourite tale was ''SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS'', because I liked the princess tales, where a beautiful princess needed to be saved for a rich and handsome prince.

• Do you remember what happend in the Snow White  story?  You can read the story in this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzW8sAXs1I

If you have read the story, you can check that is totally different to other version of the Grimm brothers 

http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/cuentos/ale/grimm/blancanieves.htm

We can observe...

The same characters: Queen, stepmother, Snow White, the prince, the seven dwarfs

The same structure: -The queen was jealousy, She was not the most beautiful of the kingdom according with the mirror (Snow white was the most pretty)

The old woman and the apple, although in the Grimm Brothers version, the old woman divided the apple in two parts, one of it was for her and the other piece with poison for Snow white,

The prince saved the princess and they lived happely ever after.

If you prove the two versions,you can realise that are completly different according with the facts occurs, but the structure and the organisation are the same in the two cases.

WHAT IS THE AIM? The goal is that students develop their mind to imaginate things without any prototype.

• Do you think that can you use the fairy tales to work in class?

From my point of view, I consider that it is a funny way to foment the reading in students, I have thought some ways to develop it:

-The creation of a tale throught a story.

-Storytelling.

-The representation of a tale using costumes, they have to make them in subjects like art.

I show you some photographs of our costumes of ''SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS'' when my friends and me dressed up in the last Carnival.

Thank you!!

See you!