Owning the Journey: Using Collaborative Revisions of Little Red Riding Hood in Teaching Introduction to Literature at a Historically Black University

Authors

  • Pauline Scott Fort Hays State University

Keywords:

archetype, adaptation, collaboration, cultural legacy and social criticism

Abstract

Design and implementation of a collaborative course project, using Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH) to teach and discuss the concepts of orality, cultural legacy, archetypes, adaptation/appropriation, and social criticism in an Introduction to Literature course at Historically Black Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. The student groups are guided through the use of interactive, collaborative strategies in the creation of a group oral presentation that reconfigures the LRRH story in combination with other narratives discussed during the semester in order to convey a message of social criticism. The project encourages students to reclaim or “own†a traditional tale from Western literary tradition by transforming it to communicate a new message.

Author Biography

Pauline Scott, Fort Hays State University

Dr. Pauline Scott currently holds the position of Professor and Chair of English at Fort Hays State University. Previously, she was Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University, where she designed and taught the course discussed in her essay. In addition to work on pedagogy, Dr. Scott’s scholarship focuses primarily on early modern English and Italian literature, contemporary adaptations of early modern texts, and literary theory.

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Published

2012-12-13