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the THIRD degree: ISSUE 1

EDITOR'S NOTE: Below is the first issue of the 'the THIRD degree', a newspaper written by pre-teen students of the Uppity Witches class at Different Directions in New York, NY. For your convenience, you may also download a PDF version of the paper. Enjoy! ______________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________

What *Really* Happened in The Witches? (A revisionist, feminist retelling of Roald Dahl’s book, The

Students in The Advice Project’s Uppity Witches class were asked to rewrite folktales and scenes from books/films in order to illustrate how women characters often receive the short end of the stick. Katherine tackled Roald Dahl’s story, The Witches. In Dahl’s story, the Grand High Witch is a cruel woman who thinks nothing of offing fellow witches when they question her authority, or of turning children into mice. In the film version, the Grand High Witch, played by Angeli