Day 3 - Folklore and Creation Myths

Please note, this is our room! EST N247 for Fall 2013!

Class Work

1. For homework, you found two additional sites and wrote a summary of the definition of Folklore. At your table, share your summaries. As a group, using only five sentences, write what Folklore is.  Class sharing will follow.

2. For homework, you also investigated Creation Myths and conducted research on two specific cultures. What did you find? How was the world created according to these myths and legends? What commonalities did you discover? What differences. First, discuss at your table. Then, we will talk as a class.

Quick creation myth summaries: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/creationmyths/tp/090808CreationMyths.htm

3. One quality of folktales is that animals often talk or have special powers. Can you think of examples?

"Coyote Steals the Blanket" - a Navajo myth.

4. Talking Animals - a Reader's Theatre exercise...

• Storks
• Frogs
• Mice

Join your "assigned" group.

• Read the extra information about your tale at: http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html

• Read through the story
• Assign parts
• Read through
• Turn in scripts at the end of class.

On Thursday, your group will present to the class. Reader's Theatre requires no movement, but it does require facial expression and vocal inflection. You may stand if you prefer. You may add "props" for costumes if your group desires.

Homework

1. Practice your part. The script may be found at
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html

Gather your props, if any.

Be ready to present on Thursday.

2. Read the following tales that contain animal characters:
A. "Little Red Riding Hood" p. 112
B. "The Hare and the Tortoise" p. 177
C. "Three Billygoats Gruff" P. 326
D. "Three Hares" p. 497
E. "The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue" p. 509
F. "Oni and the Great Bird" p. 644
G. " The Story of the Smart Parrot" p. 748

For each tale, do the following and post in Canvas:

• Summarize the story in no more than five sentences. (3pts. per story)
• List the "moral" of the story. In other words, what's the message? (1 point per story)
• Think a bit. Look at the culture from which the story came, speculate in a few sentences why there might have been a need for the story in that part of the world? (2 points per story)