Folktales
Day 1: What Are Folktales?
Day 2: Fables--readalouds and interrogate morals
Day 3: Fables--finish Moral project and retell a fable as a comic
Day 4: Mythology--origin stories
https://video.link/w/HZW5b - Hopi
https://video.link/w/wdX5b - Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=buiLxjyGFE0 (Cherokee, start at 2:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHbXk63wMTI&t=310s (Lakota, includes trickster story starting at 5:30)
https://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12.html
http://bigmyth.com/2_eng_myths.html
Storytelling of Norse and Iroquois, then students to use Big Myth and/or Khan Academy to pick more to compare/contrast and interrogate.
Questions:
What does this creation myth tell you about the roles of men and women in this culture?
What does this creation myth tell you about the nature of the relationship between humans and animals/nature in this culture?
What does this creation myth tell you about the nature of the relationship between humans and god(s) in this culture?
Day 4: Trickster tale cross-cultural study
(Carmen reads aloud Papagayo, Monkey, Zomo the Rabbit, etc.)
Day 5: Students begin exploring to choose a tale they will investigate, learn, explore (SurLaLuneFairytales.com) Read diversely. Choose a tale type by the end of class.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316180353/http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
https://surlalunefairytales.com
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
https://retellingthetales.com/
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Motif_Index.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316180353/http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
Day 6: Students dig deeply into their tale type and complete graphic organizer (use books, SurLaLune, etc.)
Protagonist(s)
Key objects
Theme
Plot
Symbols
Day 7: Students begin retelling their tale. Can be as a written story, oral storytelling, puppetry, video, claymation, comic...student choice, working within existing time constraints
Day 8: Work on story
Day 9: Finish story
Day 10: Share stories
Day 1: What Are Folktales?
Explore the ATU index, retell some stories together
Day 2: Magic tale cross-cultural study
( Jack and the Beanstalk, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella...)
Day 3: Creation tale cross-cultural study
(Norse, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese)
http://bigmyth.com/2_eng_myths.html
Storytelling of Norse and Iroquois, then students to use Big Myth and/or Khan Academy to pick more to compare/contrast and interrogate.
Questions:
What does this creation myth tell you about the roles of men and women in this culture?
What does this creation myth tell you about the nature of the relationship between humans and animals/nature in this culture?
What does this creation myth tell you about the nature of the relationship between humans and god(s) in this culture?
Day 4: Trickster tale cross-cultural study
Anansi tale - West Africa
Coyote tale - Zuni
Loki tale - Norse
Day 5: Students begin exploring to choose a tale they will investigate, learn, explore (SurLaLuneFairytales.com) Read diversely. Choose a tale type by the end of class.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316180353/http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
https://surlalunefairytales.com
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
https://retellingthetales.com/
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Motif_Index.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316180353/http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu
Day 6: Students dig deeply into their tale type and complete graphic organizer (use books, SurLaLune, etc.)
Protagonist(s)
Key objects
Theme
Plot
Symbols
Day 7: Students begin retelling their tale. Can be as a written story, oral storytelling, puppetry, video, claymation, comic...student choice, working within existing time constraints
Day 8: Work on story
Day 9: Finish story
Day 10: Share stories