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Housekeeping:
- Wiki issues
- Syllabus Contract (last call)
Agenda
"Hansel and Gretel"
Discussion Questions:
- Context
- Who wrote this literary version of "Hansel and Gretel"?
- When and where was it published?
- Summarize the narrative in a couple of sentences.
- Analysis (Close Reading)
- How do illustrations compliment and modify the text of this fairy tale?
- How is the family structured in this narrative?
- What threatens the family? How does that reflect back upon the culture that produced this specific tale?
- How does ABC's Once Upon A Time modify this familial narrative in "True North"? How does that reflect on modern culture?
- Scholarship