The chosen movie is titled, “Red’s Riding Hoods”. It is based on the popular children’s fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
One of the reasons for choosing this movie for a lesson is that most if not all students would be familiar with the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
The main objectives of the lesson were to highlight to students that gender stereotypes is usually embedded in traditional fairy tales and ways in which the characters were portrayed. Tapping on students’ prior knowledge, the teacher can structure activities that discuss on what they already know about the story and how they feel about it.
To progress to the systematic knowledge, teacher may discuss the features of fractured fairy tales. Teacher could also highlight to students how the Red’s character, particularly her facial expression seems to signal her evil personality. Whereas the wolf’s facial expression is that of a good natured person.
To move to a more critical stance, the teacher may ask students to rewrite the story to make it a less gendered story.
In relation to Singapore’s context, while it may seem ambitious to be able to meet the learning objectives of the lesson, teachers could adapt the lesson structure while modifying part of the lesson to suit her class ability. Teachers could also provide more scaffolding questions to aid students in their understanding especially if students were never exposed to such activities before.
2 comments:
Hey Naz,
I think your suggestions of showing this video clip of "Red Riding Boots" is really interesting! It also allows students to see how a wolf can be portrayed as bing the innocent party while the woman is the baddy in the story.
I was thinking maybe we can get students to also think about the ideology of collocating innocent looks with good personality. What I'm driving at here is that maybe we can get students to explore the possibility of someone who looks evil but possesses a good nature at the same time. This, I think, would be a perfect way to resist ideology of always pairing up demure looks with good personality. =)
Sounds like a good idea...
we should address the streotypical way of "judging" one based on their looks especially in books and fairy tales where the good ones are always looking so innocent while the evil ones wear a frown on their face with a slit for an eye...
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