Unit 2 The Oral Tradition

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Unit 2The Oral Tradition
Why has story telling changed over time?
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Warm up

• Finish the paragraph
• It was a dark and stormy night. The sounds that
  I heard in the dark, old house

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Test QuestionThis WILL be on your test at the
end of this unit!!
Why has story telling changed over time?
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What are some different kinds of stories?
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Text Book page 4

• Create a vocabulary card for each type of oral
  literature.

Examples
Definition
Stories that explain natural events as the action
of a supernatural force
Echo and Narcissus Daedalus and Icharus
Myths
What is it like?
What is it not like?
Fairy tales both have supernatural forces
Legends not based on history
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Anticipation questions
Have you ever heard a small child ask, Is God
crying when it rains?
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Myths

• Stories that explain objects or events as the
  action of a supernatural force.
• The change of seasons is because of the decent to
  the underworld and return to earth of Persephone.

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Echo and Narcissus
What is an echo? What is a narcissus?
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Echo and Narcissus
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• Read Echo and Narcissus and complete the story
  chart by answering the questions on page 10.

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Echo and Narcissus

• Literary Devices

Suspension of belief when the reader accepts
things that are clearly not true in order to
enjoy the story.
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Response to the story

• What qualities do you find attractive in another
  person?
• Is physical appearance as important as other
  aspects like personality or athleticism? Why or
  why not?

1 page response Due next class
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Read Aloud Think aloud

• The Magic Ring

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Mini Lesson
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What part of speech will you be using to answer
part 1?

• What qualities do you find attractive in another
  person?
• Cute face
• Chubby waist
• Athletic
• Smart

Adjectives or adverbs?
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Adjective and Adverbs

• Adjective a word that modifies a noun or
  pronoun
• I like girls who are cute.
• I like boys who are muscular.

Adverbs a word that modifies a verb, an
adjective, or another adverb The big, brown
bear ate quickly.
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Anticipation questions
Do all fairy tales have a happy ending? Why or
why not?
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Fairy Tales

• Stories that have mischievous spirits and other
  supernatural elements and often take place in
  medieval times.
• Kings, queens, knights, princesses

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What fairy tales do you know?

• Cinderella
• Snow White
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Little Mermaid

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Complete the pyramid

• Take two fairy tale that you know and complete
  Freytags pyramid.

Climax
Rising Action
Falling Action
Resolution
Setting
CANNOT DO CINDERELLA
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Team Reading

• The White Snake

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Discussion

• Watch excerpts of two different Cinderella
  stories.

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Response to the excerpts

• How were the Cinderella stories the same?
• How were they different?
• Why do you think the stories differed?

1 page response Due next class
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WHAT IS COMMON TO BOTH STORIES
MULTICULTURAL CINDERELLAONLY
MEXICAN CINDERELLAONLY
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What is a likely reason that the Cinderella tale
from France is the most popular version in the
United States? Use information from the article
to support your answer.
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• Of all the different stories mentioned in this
  article, the French version was most similar to
  our own. Western culture.
• The reason this version is more popular in the
  United States is because there are more French
  people who live here.
• The French Cinderella is the most popular in the
  US because this is the version Walt Disney used
  for his famous movie. Therefore, most people
  never knew there were different stories.

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Of all the different stories mentioned in this
article, the French version was most similar to
our own. Western culture.
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The reason this version is more popular in the
United States is because there are more French
people who live here.
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The French Cinderella is the most popular in the
US because this is the version Walt Disney used
for his famous movie. Therefore, most people
never knew there were different stories.
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Give it a score
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Your turn

• What is a likely reason that the tales from
  various lands are so different?

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Warm upExplain the following
One finger cannot lift a pebble. (Iranian)
It is better to turn back than to get lost.
(Russian)
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Explain the following
A crooked branch has a crooked shadow.(Japanese)
Step by step one ascends the staircase. (Turkey)
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Proverbs

• An adage, or traditional saying
• Multicultural proverbs offer interesting insights
  into the universality of wisdom.
• This evocative form of folklore sometimes stands
  in the stead of a wisdom tale. Thought-provoking
  proverbs can suggest a larger scenario. I invite
  readers to look at proverbs creatively and
  imagine the story the proverb suggests. -Heather
  Forest

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African proverbs

• The Yoruba of Nigeria emphasize the value of
  proverbs by saying "A proverb is the horse that
  can carry one swiftly to the discovery of ideas".

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Your task

• Explain the meaning of the African proverbs.
• Shade in the countries represented on the map.
• Use the reference section of the media center to
  find two facts about each country represented.

Homework
Take one of the proverbs and create a one-page
fable.
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Reference Materials on AFRICA
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Look for these

• Reference Section
• Lands and People - R 908.82
• People and Places R 908 Peo
• World Book Encyclopedia
• Non fiction section
• 960 Gat - 969 Noo

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Warm up

• How would you let me know a fight was going to
  happen without letting everyone know that you
  told me?

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Follow the Drinking Gourd
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Spirituals

• Religious songs from the African-American folk
  tradition.
• During slavery, they often served as a way to
  secretly pass on information.
• After slavery, the style of music remained
  popular.

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Literary Devices
Repetition the repeating of a word or
phrase. Allusion reference to a person, event,
object, or story from history or literature.
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• Im building me a home.
• Im building me a home.
• Im building me a home.
• This earthly house is gonna soon decay,
• And my souls gotta have somewhere to stay.
• When you hear me praying.
• Im building me a home.
• When you hear me praying.
• Im building me a home.
• This earthly house is gonna soon decay,
• And my souls gotta have somewhere to stay.
• Through many dangers, toils and snares
• I have already come.
• It was grace that taught my heart to fear
• And I know it will lead me home.

Look for repetition
Look for allusion
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• When you hear me moaning.
• Im building me a home.
• When you hear me moaning.
• Im building me a home.
• This earthly house is gonna soon decay,
• And my souls gotta have somewhere to stay.
• When you hear me shouting.
• Im building me a home.
• When you hear me shouting.
• Im building me a home.
• This earthly house is gonna soon decay,
• And my souls gotta have somewhere to stay.
• Morehouse College Mens Choir

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Spirituals told other slaves important information

• Who was going to escape?
• What day?
• Where were they going?
• When were they going to escape?
• How were they going to escape?

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Go Down, MosesSwing Low, Sweet ChariotSteal
AwayI Got a Home in Dat RockI Thank God Im
Free at Las
Team Reading and Discussion
Place a circle around examples of
repetition Place an next to examples of allusion
and explain to what person, event, object, or
story from history or literature the phrase is
alluding. Answer the questions that follow.
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Video Clip

• Language Arts at Work United Streaming
• Writing on Air
• Writing that Rocks

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Fables

• A brief story with talking animals that is told
  to teach a lesson, or moral.

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The Fox and the Crow

• p. 34
• Read the story
• Answer questions 1b, 2b, 3b, and 4b

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Homework

• Work on 10 novel entries
• Due Oct. 30/31

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HANGMAN

• What word describes the fox in The Fox and the
  Crow?

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Folk Tale

• Types of characters
• Trickster clever and witty (hare)
• Victim slow-witted (tortoise)

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Literary device

• Personification giving human characteristics to
  non-human things.
• The leaves of the palm tree waved hello as we
  approached Coronado Island.

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Goha and the Pot

• p. 30
• Questions 4a and 4b
• If you were Gohas neighbor, how would you feel
  about being tricked? Would the trick cause you to
  reevaluate your own behavior?

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Jirimpimbira

• Who is the trickster?
• Who is the victim?
• What literary devices are used?
• What elements of other oral tradition types
• are present?

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Homework

• Work on 10 novel entries
• Due Oct. 30/31