Romania LTTA
It was a virtual meeting that was held by Romania with the topic "Using stories to develop critical thinking skills". Every school researched information about countries in Europe and characters from their folklore, so that during the meeting, they were able to create a map of European story characters. The topic of the exchange was "The Map of European Stories"
Each country presented a video with a representative story.
We made posters about FRIENDSHIP-FREEDOM-NATURE-HUMAN RIGHTS-FAMILY.
We read short stories and worked on the characters,values and symbols.
THE STORY OF ST.NICHOLAS
Saint Nicholas is known in many regions of the world. His name, “Saint Nicholas,” is different in different languages, of course. They are offered, with transcription for those from other scrips, such as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, etc.
Polish: Sweti Mikolaj or Swiety Mikolaj
Portuguese: São Nicolau
Where St. Nicholas is prominent, his day, not Christmas, is the primary gift giving day. Parties may be held on the eve, December 5th, and shoes or stockings left for St. Nicholas to fill during the night. Children will find treats of small gifts, fruit or nuts, and special Nicholas candies and cookies. St. Nicholas gifts are meant to be shared, not hoarded for oneself
Vlad the Impaler, Drăculea
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş, the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, died 1477
The famous vampire, Dracula, may not have existed in all his blood-sucking glory, but his frightful myth is based on an equally frightful individual in Romanian history. Vlad the Impaler. A legend in his home country, Vlad was incredibly impressive in inspiring fear and horror into his Turkish enemies, frightening their troops.
You may be able to gather his favorite form of torture from his title – Vlad Dracul liked to impale his enemies on stakes, alive, leaving their tortured bodies for the advancing enemy to find.
Vlad’s cruel and brutal acts led to many widespread tales about him, eventually leading to the bloody legend of Count Dracula, which also pulls from Hungarian vampiric myths and other European folklore, like the Polish Wąpierz.
MALE FIGURE - FAT FRUMOS
FEMALE FIGURE- ILEANA COSANZEANA
While FAT FRUMOS doesn’t sound like the sexiest name in English, this classic Romanian fairy tale figure is the local equivalent of PRINCE CHARMING.
His name translates to handsome son, and he embodies purity, passion, spiritual and mental strength.
Făt-Frumos is actually present in many Romanian folk tales.
ILEANA COSANZEANA is the Romanian most beautiful and charming princess. She is kind, wise, hardworking and devoted. She is the most beloved young woman. She is determined to wait for the FAT FRUMOS/PRINCE CHARMING and she refuses to become the wife another prince or monster.