Sentences with phrase «folktale about»

Simon Starling's film Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) critiques Moore's advocacy of nuclear energy by inserting him into a Japanese folktale about deceit and betrayal.

One of TIME's top ten games of the year, Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure.

Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure.

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

The outsider child gains power and recognition in this Nigerian folktale about the orphan Mbi, who is helped by a magic tree.

Then ask students to choose another figure of speech and write a folktale about how it came to be used.

«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.

Loosely based on the folktale about the three little pigs, these three pigs have a different surprise for the wolf who is trying to blow their houses down.

That same notion is the basis for a folktale about a man who died and went to the place of souls.

Not exact matches

«This is an important innovation because despite centuries of scholarship there exist many unresolved questions about the... evolution for different folktale traditions,» says Robert Ross, a psychologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who has studied the origins and transmission of folktales.

Still, he says, «I have some concerns about whether or not the particular folktale dataset he has used is appropriate for phylogenetic analysis.»

Behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient story about a god, sage, or sacred animal, much like Aesop's fables or European folktales.

(Language Arts) A Big Blue Ox (Folktales) A Special Fish (Art) All About Me Guess Who?

In this lesson, students will read and learn about four folktales of the Wampanoags, the tribe that shared the First Thanksgiving with the pilgrims.

Talk about what took place in each part of the folktale and let students draw a picture to show that.

This week — National Library Week — Elaine Lindy, creator of the Absolutely Whootie Web site, shares three favorite folktales that will get kids thinking and talking about the importance of cooperation!

Elaine Lindy, creator of the Absolutely Whootie Web site, shares three favorite folktales that will get kids thinking and talking about the importance of cooperation!

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.

For younger students: Help the class work together to create a play or skit about one folktale, fairy tale, or myth.

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.

A folktale lesson about the «The Crane Maiden,» for example, should include vocabulary like crane, marsh, loom, and quilt.

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.

Elaine Lindy shares three favorite folktales that will get kids thinking and talking about the importance of cooperation.

Assess students based on their written reflections / critical thinking about the riddles behind the folktales.

The folktale «Half - Chicken» is about a chicken hatched with only half a body, one leg, one wing, one eye, and only half as...

Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual collection of Hawaiian folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.

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

The other thing that I find interesting about these Bengali folktales is that the stories are shared across national and religious boundaries.

Ideal for reading aloud, this sparkling, original story about Silly Bear, who unwittingly gets the best of a stingy fox, has the feel of a traditional folktale.

Based on a folktale told by both Jews and Arabs, this tale of two brothers gives children hope for what the world might look like if people thought more about one another than themselves.

AuthorImprints Services: eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting About the book: Dolitsky and Michael have selected four of Nagishkin's folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.

Part love story, part mystery, part horror, this is as much about the twisting hand of fate as it is about the mutability of folktales.

Pirican Pic and Pirican Mor is a retelling of a Scottish folktale, a charming story about sharing, quarrels and forgiveness that kids are sure to enjoy.

This lively, humorous retelling of a traditional tale in an unusual and modern setting engendered the usual concerns about cultural stereotyping, the provision of sourcing (always an issue for folktales), and the portrayal of a generic «Africa» — as well as plenty of admiration.

Stories inspired by Chinese folktales enliven this exciting saga about a young girl who embarks on a wild, mystical quest to reverse her family's bad luck.

Yes, Swamp Angel fans will be very happy to know about this continuation of Anne Isaac's original folktale — sixteen years later!

A traditional Southern folktale provides a hilarious lesson about work, ingenuity, and resourcefulness.

This modern drama enacted a story about Cupak, an antagonist in traditional Balinese folktale «Cupak and Grantang».

Weems (American, born 1953) began the work while completing an MFA at the University of California, San Diego, where the late artist Allan Sekula created a similar installation about this family, Aerospace Folktales (1973), on view in the historical wing of the museum during the run of the exhibition.