Reading Options

When it came time to start picking articles that I might be interested in using for the purpose of this course, I honestly had no idea where to start. As I started thumbing through some of the articles and stories that were posted, I kept going back to ones that were centered around fairy tales and things like that. I have always loved the well-known tales such as Snow White and Cinderella, found in Grimm (Crane), as well as the idea of ones that are not so well known. This looked like something I might be interested in for this course because of the nature of the reading. As much as I love the well known fairy tales, I would probably want to focus more on some that aren't so popular to create a more unheard of story of my own.

Cinderella, a tale told in the unit above that I was interested in. 

Source: Wikimedia Commons

I was also interested in using the Arabian Nights unit for one of my own stories. I have always loved Aladdin as told by the Disney movie so I thought it would be cool to see the difference in this tale and then potentially model something of my own after it. I could potentially even pick something from the related list and make a completely different tale of my own. I didn't realize before doing this reading assignment that there were so many different options for readings in this course.

Disney's live rendition of Aladdin. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Finally, I enjoyed reading through the English Fairy Tales, for a similar reason as the other two. I think it would be super cool to use these and put my own spin on them for my own project, similar to something that I saw done in the readings we got to sort through last week.

To sum up my choices, I also think these would serve as a fun experience when it comes to how I might could do a creative writing assignment after graduation when I have a classroom of my own. I could have students do a rewrite assignment of their own and I think it would serve as good experience in creative writing. However, I would want to have experience with it myself. This would be a cool way to get such an experience that I could later include into my own teachings.