I'm still thinking about the uses of Little Red Riding Hood in the classroom. An idea that occurred to me while I was shaving my legs (why do we get our best ideas in the shower?) would be to use the book to explore the concept of "acceptable" reading material. I imagine that an elementary school teacher would never think of reading a book to his kiddos in which the main character and her beloved grandmother are eaten alive. Yet, this book was classic fairy tale stuff for centuries. What changed? Why? These questions, and others like them, would facilitate interesting classroom discussions at the high school level on psychology, political correctness, child development, parenting, education ... all sorts of goodness.
Still thinking. But done shaving.
I'm going to have to ban you from showering or shaving your legs! Focus, focus, focus! There are a million ideas to examine in this world but you need to focus your leg shaving creative surges on your independent study, not the myriad of other things you could be researching - save that for your PhD program.
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