Intro Angela Carter & Fairy Tales

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Once Upon a Time... 

Favourite Fairy Tales

Angela Carter's Short Stories

Main question in this part:

How does Angela Carter use literary devices to create a theme and to express moral values and /or an ethical stance?

Structure of this part:

1. The original fairy tale

2. Angela Carter's version of the fairy tale

3. Meaningful elements sheet

4. Practise IOC (1 pair per story) 

Together with your partner, pick 40 lines from Angela Carter's story and prepare an IOC of 10 minutes. Present this IOC to the rest of the class. The class will ask you questons afterwards.

Angela Carter

British Novelist 

Wrote novels, nonfiction, anthologies & articles

Attempted to write a sequel to Jane Eyre

Diagnosed with lung cancer in 1991, passed away aged 52 in 1992

Angela Carter

What do you now expect from the short stories?

Angela Carter:  “My intention was not to do ‘versions’ […] but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories.”
 (The Guardian, 2006) 

Which Fairy Tales do you know?

What makes a Fairy Tale, a Fairy Tale?
What are their common features?

Go to page 5 of your toolkit

First, write down your top 5 of common features fairy tales have.

Then, work with a partner to fill in the table.

Go to page 7 of your toolkit

Have a look at the tools needed in this part. 

Little Red Riding Hood

Read the story of Little Red Riding Hood on page 6. Work together with your neighbour to fill in the meaningful elements sheet for the original story. 

Homework next lesson

Complete the meaningful elements sheet on LRRH (just the column on the left!)