Welcome to Unit 2; Indigenous & Norse Narratives!
-Read over the Big Ideas and Essential Questions of the Unit:
-Why do people tell stories and tales (narratives, folk tales, legends,
fables, proverbs)?
-How do these stories and tales help people understand their world?
-What lessons do we learn about people through these stories and tales?
-How are these stories and tales from around the world alike and
different?
-How are these stories relevant/meaningful to me, in my life?
-Why is it important for each generation to hear and to retell these
tales?
-“Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens.”
“Old stories are forever new. The people who first heard the traditional stories “listened to those tales because they loved them and told them to their children without realizing they were participating in the perpetuation of folk tradition. Listening. That is where it begins. As a child, I sat next to the potbellied stove in my grandparents’ general store listening to Adirondack tall tales, songs, and stories about logging” (Bruchac, in Young, Bruchac, Livingston, & Kurkjian, 2004, p. 783).
“Storytelling is a way people pass knowledge from one generation to another. Usually the first stories that we learn are from the world’s folk tales. These stories usually entertain us but also “transmit the values and wisdom of the culture, imbue a strong sense of right and wrong, and provide a reservoir of vivid images that become part of the individual’s imagination and even everyday language” (Cole, 1983, p. xvi).
-After reading
these Unit questions and the quotes above, give some thought to the following questions:
-Do you agree or disagree? Why/why not?
-Do you typically think of stories in this
way?
-Do you connect specifically to any one of these questions? Why or why not?
-The following is a list of two groups of narratives:
Group 1: “The White Cat” (France), “Thousand-Furs” (Germany), “The Thoughtless Abbot” (Italy), “I Ate the Loaf” (Spain), “The Seal’s Skin” (Iceland), “The Story of King Frost” (Russia), “Intelligence of Luck” (Czechoslovakia), “The Donkey Driver and the Thief” (Arabia), “The Three Hares” (Turkey), “How Spider Obtained the Sky-God’s Stories” (Ashanti, Africa), “The Magic Tree” (Haiti), “Three Magic Oranges” (Costa Rica), “The Lost Woman” (North America T’suu Tina)?
Group 2: “Snow-White”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Rumpelstiltskin”, “Rapunzel”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Hansel and Gretel” (Germany), “Jack and the Beanstalk”, “The Pied Piper” (England), “The Three Billygoat’s Gruff” (Norway), “Wishketchahk”/“Wesakechak” (Canada), “Raven” (Canada)
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