A modern day version of Jack and the beanstalk

[lozgreeny]

I am currently studying an education studies course and one of our tasks for assessment is to modernise a fairytale and present it to a junior school class. The fairytale we picked was Jack and the Beanstalk, but now we are trying to mke it age appropriate and related to issues and people that 7-11 year olds can relate to. Does anybody have any ideas? Or have seen something like this done before? Any adivce or ideas would be extremely apreciated.

[JK2]

If you google your heading above, lots of stuff comes up that may give you ideas & also read the wikipedia page - it has some interesting analysis of the story

[LeMarchand]

There's a film that may be of interest: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264262/ and Jasper Fforde's "The Big Over Easy" also features a version of J&tB.