Sentences with phrase «folktales from»

- Explore volcanic islands - Stargaze for Northern Lights - Viking folktales from locals - Relax in natural hot pools - Glaciers, volcanoes, & waterfalls - Stay in the Icelandic Countryside

In this challenging, lyrical novel set in the Balkans, Duerden navigates the intricacies and emotional intensity of heroine Natalia's story, while Sachs relates the memories and folktales from her beloved grandfather's youth.

think critically in order to solve riddle stories / folktales from the Philippines, India, and the Congo.

Dramatizing folktales, legends, and myths Students read and act out folktales from a variety of Native American cultures.

Brief Description After reading and listening to folktales from various Hispanic cultures, students write a new folktale.

A recommended replacement is Folktales from China: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/china.html.

To make one of the most inventive and unnerving horror films in recent memory, writer - director Robert Eggers conducted extensive research into folktales from the witch - hunt era of 17th century New England.

November 10: Two funny folktales from Africa come to life at this Crabgrass Puppet Theatre performance (Brookline)

The family - friendly event will feature a live recording of Circle Round, which tells folktales from around the world.

Two funny folktales from Africa come to life at this Crabgrass Puppet Theatre performance (Brookline)

Join a live recording of Circle Round, WBUR's new storytelling podcast featuring folktales from around the world (Brookline)

A lesser - known Tibetan folktale From the Elephant Pit is about a hunter who happens upon an elephant pit in which a man, a lion, a mouse, a snake, and a falcon are trapped.

The Pumpkin in the Jar — A Riddle Story from the Philippines Solve the riddle in this cause - and - effect folktale from the Philippines.

Length: 10.47 minutes The Stonecutter - folktale from Japan An unhappy Stonecutter sees a Lord Mayor and wishes for the Lord Mayor's life, through the magic of stories his wish is granted.

Have students write their explanations for the riddles in these stories: All for a Paisa» This folktale from India shares how a seemingly lazy boy is able to prove his worth — and the worth of a paisa coin — to his disbelieving father.

Read the poem in one direction, and it tells the folktale from one point of view.

Not exact matches

He's only an amalgamation of several real life messianic cult leaders with all his «miracles» stolen from neighboring religious folktales.

Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.

Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales 100 stories from around the world, arranged geographically.

Science Punk blogger Swain connects the undead dots from Haitian folktales to CIA mind - control research as he hunts for definitive proof of zombiism.

But another hypothesis holds that folktales mutate and evolve so quickly that all of these stories emerged and evolved independently from each other; their similarities are due to chance and the universality of a world filled with wild animals and vulnerable children.

Statistical ties between a set of folktales and languages from parts of Europe and Asia have helped researchers date the origins of some stories to thousands of years ago.

Constellation: Ursa Major Chalawan, a villainous crocodile king from a Thai folktale, lived in an underwater cave.

I think he is being courageous,» counters Nigel J. H. Smith, a geographer at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has traveled widely in the Amazon collecting folktales and legends — including those of the mapinguari — which he describes in his book The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories From a Vanishing World.

6 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer A Jewish folktale set in modern - day Manhattan, this engrossing drama from Israeli writer - director Joseph Cedar (Footnote) features a career - topping performance from Richard Gere as a graying, fraying influence peddler whose generosity and opportunism are almost impossible to distinguish from each other.

The story is made up of four classic Japanese folktales adapted from the work of Lafcadio Hearn.

Take any shot from Robert Eggers» assured debut - based on a New England folktale - and your spine will tingle.

«The Tale of the Princess Kaguya»: Studio Ghibli's penultimate film is a hand - drawn wonder, a passion project from legendary director Isao Takahata that spins a universal folktale about rebelling against societal dictates while staying true to its 10th - century Japanese roots.

One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1

In this lesson, students read myths, folktales, fairy tales, and tall tales from around the world and complete a passport recording the continents they «visited.»

Create a Folktale Students write a folktale modeled after tales from Hispanic cultures read and heard iFolktale Students write a folktale modeled after tales from Hispanic cultures read and heard ifolktale modeled after tales from Hispanic cultures read and heard in class.

Adapted from a german folktale.

teacher - selected library sources of folktales, fairy tales, and myths from Asian American cultures or printouts from the site noted in the lesson plan

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Act It Out: Dramatizing Stories from Asian American Cultures Act out folktales, fairy tales, or myths from Asian American cultures.

In a modern childhood world, populated by Barbie and Harry Potter (not together, of course), schoolkids often know very little about the folktales of their own country and almost nothing about those from other parts of the world.

Heroes and Heroines in the Family In this unit from the Yale - New Haven Teacher's Institute, students study multicultural fairy tales and folktales to learn about heroes in various cultures.

Many kinds of traditional literature — folktales, legends, myths, fables, as well as short stories, poetry, and scenes from plays — enable and reward close reading.

They could respond in two different ways to a text that the whole class had read — a folktale depicting a family's annual tradition from another culture.

Readings are drawn from folktales, literature, law, philosophy, history, social sciences, mathematics, and science.

There are so many folktales and legends from Mexico that I would like to write about them all and show them to the world.

Despite her immigrant parents» obsession with Indian princesses and folktales, Kiranmala has always had a fairly normal life in a New Jersey town — until she arrives home on her twelfth birthday to find her parents gone, a mythical rakkosh demon waiting to ambush her, and two warrior princes who tell her that she's actually an Indian princess from another dimension, born to slay demons.

Wolves have long been symbols in folktales and literature all over the world, from ancient myths, such as those of Native peoples in America, to the European story of «Little Red Riding Hood.»

Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

In a classic folktale, a gluttonous jackal works his way from a few fish all the way to an elephant, until his tummy bursts, disgorging the lot, who waste no time taking revenge with a rhyming taunt.

(Also keep an eye out for Annotated African American Folktales edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., coming November 14 from Liveright!)

Just as reading a Russian folktale inspired her to write The Snow Child, so too did the concept for Eowyn Ivey's second novel arise from a piece of literature - this time on the fragile pages of a rare book she discovered at the bookshop where she worked.

In her compelling narration of this quest tale flavored with Chinese folktales, Guest masterfully depicts Pinmel, who seeks to rescue her grandmother from the wicked Tiger Emperor.

Glowing illustrations enhance this Scottish folktale about a brave girl determined to rescue her true love from two witches.

The books draw from the traditional folktales of West Bengal, India and follow the interdimensional adventures of a 12 - year - old girl who finds out she's an Indian princess destined to slay blood - thirsty rakkhosh demons.