Class assignment 1 (pair work, done orally): 1. Read the descriptions of "The Seven Basic Plots" and decide whether your pattern of "Little Red Riding-Hood" bears similarities to any of them. 2. Study these two pictures and decide how the plot has changed and why (if it has): picture 1, picture 2 . Additional activity: read the source text to see how the "comic strips medium" has changed it. Class assignment 2 (group work, done orally): Read the text below and make up a similar syntagm using the suggested resources. In a more popular context, Umberto Eco also focused on a finite corpus based on a single author - deriving a basic narrative scheme in relation to the James Bond novels (one could do much the same with the films): M moves and gives a task to Bond. The villain moves and appears to Bond. Bond moves and gives a first check to the villain or the villain gives first check to Bond. Woman moves and shows herself to Bond. Bond consumes woman: possesses her or begins her seduction. The villain captures Bond. The villain tortures Bond. Bond conquers the villain. Bond convalescing enjoys woman, whom he then loses. (Eco 1966, 52) Unlike Propp and Greimas, Eco goes beyond the reductive formalism of structural analysis, making links with the broader context of literary and ideological discourses (Woollacott 1982, 96-7). Resources for the Task: "You Have 48 Hours"