ELP | My UWCSEA Learning Journey

Ella Rokic

How does the interplay of written and visual text affect our response/interpretation?

Little red riding hood has always had the same meaning and connotations that went with it. In this advert, it is using those themes to share a message about online safety for children. The girl is little red riding hood, who represents innocence and naivety. The computer is cover in fur and wolf ears,…

Fractured Fairy Tale

Princess and the Frog Tears fell down like molten lava on my skin. My arms, crossed in front of me cradle my head as I sat on the mossy floor whilst leaning against a rock. It felt like an eternity, it felt like time has stopped then and there forcing me to relive the moment…

Representation and Identity in Little Red Riding Hood adaptations

In Duffy and Carters adaptations of little red riding hood, they both explore the ideas of representation and identity through the ‘wolf’. Carter blurs the lines between the villain and hero by making them the same person in her short story. The hunter is revealed to be the wolf, showing that there aren’t always clear…

Free Write – Culture

Culture can bind a community together with beliefs and traditions etc. A part of peoples identity always stems from their culture and upbringing, it can affect what you believe and think about certain things. Being at an international school, people are identified as their culture since there are so many different students from different countries….