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Krista Nielsen
West Clinton Elementary
Fables and trickster tales are short narratives
that use animal characters with human features
to convey folk wisdom and to help us understand
human nature and human behavior. These
stories were originally passed down through oral
tradition and were eventually written down.
The legendary figure Aesop was reported to
have orally passed on his animal fables, which
have been linked to earlier beast tales from
India and were later written down by the
Greeks and Romans. Ananse trickster tales
derive from the Asante people of Ghana and
were brought by African slaves to the
Caribbean and parts of the U.S. These tales
developed into Brer Rabbit stories and were
written down in the 19th century in the
American South.
Africa's Namib Desert
Elements of Folktales:
Folktales...
...are very old stories
...have special beginnings (such as "Once upon a
time..." or There once was ...") and endings
...often repeat words or sentences
...have characters, settings, problems, and
solutions
Book walk
Title page
Predictions of Ananse's Feast
Listen to the teacher read the first page of the story.
barren drought
Vocabulary Strategy
Preview in Context
barren
drought
Utah
Utah
Listen to the teacher read the first page of the story.
barren drought
Vocabulary Strategy
Preview in Context
barren
drought
Utah
Read next page of story silently.
Do you want to change any of our predictions?
Choose how to read
the rest of the story.
Read by yourself.
Read to a partner.
Return to your predictions.
Revisit the story and choose
a word you think the entire
class should study.
Write the words and
definitions in your journal.
Draw a picture and use
each word in a sentence.
http://www.storylineonline.net/
The Lion and The Mouse (Aesop)
The Fox and The Crow (Aesop)
The Ungrateful Tiger (Korean)
1.The Fish That Were Too Clever (India, The Panchatantra).
2.The Fox and the Cat (Aesop).
3.The Cat and the Fox (France, Jean de La Fontaine).
4.The Fox and the Cat (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).
5.The Seven-Witted Fox and the One-Witted Owl
(Romania).
6.The Fox and His Bagful of Wits and the One-Witted
Hedgehog (Romania).
7.The Fox and the Hedgehog (South Slavonic).
8.The Tiger Finds a Teacher (China).
Group Work
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0105.html
Write your own fable.
Include a moral or
lesson at the end.
Rehearse story for buddy
reading with first grade
buddies.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=35
 Cooper, J. David. "Literacy: Helping Children
Construct Meaning." 2006. Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston, MA.
 Mollel, Tololwa. "Ananse's Feast." 1997. Clarion
Books.
 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.a
sp?id=237

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Folktales.ppt

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  • 5. Fables and trickster tales are short narratives that use animal characters with human features to convey folk wisdom and to help us understand human nature and human behavior. These stories were originally passed down through oral tradition and were eventually written down. The legendary figure Aesop was reported to have orally passed on his animal fables, which have been linked to earlier beast tales from India and were later written down by the Greeks and Romans. Ananse trickster tales derive from the Asante people of Ghana and were brought by African slaves to the Caribbean and parts of the U.S. These tales developed into Brer Rabbit stories and were written down in the 19th century in the American South.
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  • 10. Elements of Folktales: Folktales... ...are very old stories ...have special beginnings (such as "Once upon a time..." or There once was ...") and endings ...often repeat words or sentences ...have characters, settings, problems, and solutions
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  • 15. Listen to the teacher read the first page of the story. barren drought Vocabulary Strategy Preview in Context barren drought Utah Utah
  • 16. Listen to the teacher read the first page of the story. barren drought Vocabulary Strategy Preview in Context barren drought Utah
  • 17. Read next page of story silently. Do you want to change any of our predictions?
  • 18.
  • 19. Choose how to read the rest of the story. Read by yourself. Read to a partner.
  • 20. Return to your predictions.
  • 21. Revisit the story and choose a word you think the entire class should study. Write the words and definitions in your journal. Draw a picture and use each word in a sentence.
  • 22.
  • 24. The Lion and The Mouse (Aesop) The Fox and The Crow (Aesop) The Ungrateful Tiger (Korean)
  • 25.
  • 26. 1.The Fish That Were Too Clever (India, The Panchatantra). 2.The Fox and the Cat (Aesop). 3.The Cat and the Fox (France, Jean de La Fontaine). 4.The Fox and the Cat (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm). 5.The Seven-Witted Fox and the One-Witted Owl (Romania). 6.The Fox and His Bagful of Wits and the One-Witted Hedgehog (Romania). 7.The Fox and the Hedgehog (South Slavonic). 8.The Tiger Finds a Teacher (China). Group Work http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0105.html
  • 27. Write your own fable. Include a moral or lesson at the end.
  • 28. Rehearse story for buddy reading with first grade buddies.
  • 29. BIBLIOGRAPHY  http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=35  Cooper, J. David. "Literacy: Helping Children Construct Meaning." 2006. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA.  Mollel, Tololwa. "Ananse's Feast." 1997. Clarion Books.  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.a sp?id=237

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and folktales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures. They will learn how folktales employ various animals in different ways to portray human strengths and weaknesses and to pass down wisdom from one generation to the next. Use the following activities to introduce students to world folklore and to explore how folktales convey the perspectives of different world cultures.
  2. Build on student’s prior knowledge of the story The Grasshopper and The Ants or The Tortoise and The Hare. Ask the students to provide as many details as they can remember and help fill in the blanks on the Story Structure Chart. Emphasize the moral or lesson presented in the story.
  3. Introduce Folktales by defining them as stories from an oral tradition that may be a blend of history and legend.
  4. Fables and trickster tales are short narratives that use animal characters with human features to convey folk wisdom and to help us understand human nature and human behavior. These stories were originally passed down through oral tradition and were eventually written down. The legendary figure Aesop was reported to have orally passed on his animal fables, which have been linked to earlier beast tales from India and were later written down by the Greeks and Romans. Ananse trickster tales derive from the Asante people of Ghana and were brought by African slaves to the Caribbean and parts of the U.S. These tales developed into Brer Rabbit stories and were written down in the 19th century in the American South.
  5. Remind students of the steps for the strategy Predicting.
  6. Give the students time to leaf through the book and look at the art.
  7. Lead the students to make predictions about the story based on the art, the title, and what they know about folktales.
  8. Teach the definitions of the words ‘barren’ and ‘drought’ found on the first page of the story.
  9. Use pictures of Utah to illustrate the vocabulary words ‘barren’ and ‘drought’.
  10. Good readers monitor their understanding as they read, which means they “stop and think” while reading to be sure what they are reading makes sense to them. Ask the students if they have ever watched a video and missed something. What did they do? They ran the tape back and watched it again. Tell them that when they realized that they didn’t understand something, they were monitoring what they were watching. Model monitoring while reading aloud from the story.
  11. View video of Anansi from eMedia. http://dms.uen.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/tsweb.woa/5/wo/RUVfUSUuC2hOIohE1yYCBM/0.11.3?1241644608578 OR view an online version of the story. http://www.afro.com/children/myths/wisdom/page1.html
  12. Discuss with students the notion of "the talking drum," a story that is passed orally through generations and cultures, and that changes as it moves from person to person and from place to place. Discuss with students the differences between telling and writing stories, and ask them what the advantages and disadvantages are of the oral and written forms. Have students retell the tale from "Ananse's Stories" and note how the story changes in the retelling. View The Drum story by Evelyn Cornel read by James Earl Jones on Storyline Online.
  13. Guided Practice The following stories involve cases where the less powerful of two animals (including one human) who are natural enemies frees the more powerful animal. The divergent responses of the animals freed lead to different lessons about human behavior and values. Using the Story Structure chart, have students identify the characters, problem and solution, and moral of these fables. http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?3&TheLionandtheMouse&lionmouse.jpg http://pbskids.org/lions/cornerstones/fox/ http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/ungrate.htm
  14. Have students fill the Story Structure Chart: Ask students to compare the characters, plot, and lessons of these stories. Which characters did they like best? Which did they like least? Which story had the best ending? The best moral? To see how fables teach universal lessons about human nature and behavior, ask students to think of a real-life situation that applies to one of the stories.
  15. Group Work Divide students into small groups and give each group one of the following fables/tales, located through the Web site, that offer lessons on the dangers of being too clever: Have each group fill out the Story Structure Chart for their particular fable or tale. Ask students to compare the animals and their behavior in each story: Why do the types of animals change or not from one culture's fable to the next? How does the behavior change according to the type of animal? What types of behaviors lead to what types of endings in these stories? Have students locate the country of origin in Google Earth. http://earth.google.com/ Use Culture Grams web site to explore the country of origin. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0105.html
  16. As a culminating activity, students create their own fable with a moral/lesson which will be graded based on the 6 Traits of Writing.
  17. Prepare to tell their stories to their first grade buddies. Click on the image to start the web page workshop. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/storyteller/listen.htm