Course Recap for January 21

Fairy Tales
Today at the beginning of class you took a short reading quiz. I then asked you to break up into small groups to work on a writing exercise. You can access that document HERE. I assigned each group two fairy tales. You then worked as a group to answer some questions about your fairy tales and chose a significant passage to write about from each tale. Each group then presented on their two fairy tales.

Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
I then asked you to begin thinking about fairy tale adaptions by looking at Scieszka's picture book. We spent some time looking at the paratext and discussing how the paratext bleeds into the narrative. We will keep thinking about Scieszka's picture book on Thursday.

Mini-Exam Study Guide and Paper 1 Guidelines
At the end of class, I spent some time going over the mini-exam study guide and the guidelines for paper 1. You can access both of these handouts on the right hand side of the course blog. Please see me if you have any questions.

Homework

• Read Nel's "Postmodernism"