Anglais 2de

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Unité de transition collège/lycée
1 • Generations living together
Ch. 1
Food for joy, food for ploy
Ch. 2
No future? No way!
2 • Working worlds
Ch. 3
Working in Silicon Valley
Ch. 4
STEM women rock!
3 • Neighbourhoods, cities and villages
Ch. 5
Ticket to ride
Ch. 6
South Afri...cans
Ch. A
Dreaming city stories - Digital content only
Ch. num
Diners and Pubs
4 • Representation of self and relationships with others
Ch. 7
Fashion-able
Ch. 8
Look at me now!
Ch. B
Inking the future - Digital content only
5 • Sports and society
Ch. 9
Spirit in motion
Ch. 10
Athletic scholarship
6 • Creation and arts
Ch. 11
“You see but you don’t observe!”
Ch. 12
From silent to talkie
Ch. C
Copying or denouncing? - Digital content only
7 • Saving the planet, designing possible futures
Ch. 13
Young voices of change
Ch. 14
Biomimicry: a sustainable solution?
Ch. num
National Parks
8 • The past in the present
Ch. 16
The Royals
Ch. num
The Royals 2.0 "Family Business"
Ch. D
All Hallows' Eve - Digital content only
Ch. num
Spooky Scotland
Fiches méthode
Précis
Ch. 18
Précis culturel
Ch. 19
Précis de communication
Ch. 20
Précis phonologique
Ch. 21
Précis grammatical
Verbes irréguliers
Rabats
Révisions
Unit 15
Activity 1

A history of retelling

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Considered by many to be the godfathers of modern fairy tale lore, the Grimm brothers collected a wealth of German folklore and published the stories in an anthology. Many of the stories were exceedingly dark and violent, but kids read them anyway. The books retained their popularity surprisingly well, and in the 20th century, a large portion of the tales was thought to be too dark and violent for children. So, when Disney pulled inspiration and storylines from the Grimm's tales, they deliberately chose to overlook the allusions to sexuality, as well as the descriptions of overt violence and cruelty that were present in so many of the fables. This left us with the sanitized, moralistic good-triumphs-over-evil stories that we know so well today.

But the kids who once dreamt of the Disney versions of fairy tales have grown up now. Today, they are the story weavers, working on blockbuster movies and writing the hit television shows like Once Upon a Time. And so we are seeing the retelling of old German folktales in shows like Grimm, a story that features the Grimm brothers as cops, fighting modern, real-life versions of familiar fairy tale creatures. Hansel and Gretel are now cunning Witch Hunters rather than helpless, abandoned children.

So what is it that drives us to modernize these tales? Many times, we choose to reimagine characters like meek, fragile Snow White or little, gullible Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk as characters who are now powerfully in control of their destinies - presently, they are unlikely heroes at worst and completely badass action heroes at best. In some of the new stories the women, who were formerly relegated to droll, feminine passivity, have advanced to meet their male counterparts as equals in battle: […] Today, people who grew up with the same old narrative of prince-meets-princess-and-they-live-happily-ever-after are creating worlds where our childhood heroes can be as powerful, flawed, and as nuanced as we always wanted them to be. And the whole point of fairy tales is to pass on these timeless stories to the next generation, even if it's in an updated format, isn't it?
Heather Ewert
“Happily Ever After?: Modernizing Fairy Tales For a New Generation”,2010.

“Happily Ever After?: Modernizing Fairy Tales For a New Generation”, Heather Ewert, 2010.

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Questions
Differentiation
Read the excerpt.
Then, click on your path! or


Path A

1-A
List the adaptations.

2-A
What is the target audience?

3-A
List the adjectives used to define them.
Path B

1-B
List the original fairy tales.

2-B
What was the target audience?

3-B
List the adjectives used to define them.

Let's talk this out!
Group work
Mediation

4
What are the differences between the original and the modern versions?

5
Why do people want to modernise fairy tales? What impact could it have on the next generation?

Useful vocabulary
People are nostalgic / like remembering the past so… They expect a movie to be… They don't believe in…
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Grammar in progress

Present perfect

Observez les verbes en gras dans le texte.
  • Comment sont-ils formés ?
  • Quelle différence y a-t-il avec la forme soulignée ?

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Phonology in progress

La prononciation de « have »

  • Quand c'est un verbe : I have /ˈhæv/ a collection of fables.
  • Quand c'est un auxiliaire : I have /həv/ read Cinderella.



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