Sentences with phrase «folktales in»

Responsible for interpreting folktales in a dramatic way and adapt them for short performances

Visit the formal royal palace and Vat Xien Tong monastery, then catch a show at the Garavek Traditional Storytelling Theater, which tells traditional Laos folktales in English.

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Beautifully illustrated, this is a collection of four Nagishkin folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.

One morning we were discussing an African folktale in which a woman gives birth to six children, all of whom are stillborn.

Young's spare, sweeping brush strokes capture the dignity and spirit of Casanova's retelling of a poignant but ultimately uplifting Chinese folktale in which a hunter must sacrifice himself to save the people of his village.

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Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.

Base every action in your life around a fictional folktale character.

It is affirmed in the charming, naive language of the folktale that Job's and Israel's true fulfillment (indeed, every man's fulfillment) is in abandonment of pride, in acceptance of the status of servant, and in cheerful acquiescence in the given condition and existent role.

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.

A former student of mine traveled widely in a country that was closed to the Gospel, collecting the folktales of the people on a recording device.

Inevitably the «media», whether in epic folktale, Greek or Shakespearean drama or TV, take up that dark side of human potential which is violence.»

But the folktale and the comedy of manners are akin in their ruthlessly stylized exclusion of all that doesn't fit the template.

If there is justice in the universe, Stanton and Judge Hoskins will meet in the Home Run Derby final, and they'll be responsible for folktales that are told after the collapse of civilization.

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

Like many folktales, the origins of this prophesy are often placed in the indefinite past, the «Once upon a time...» of fairy tales.

Instead, the folktale seems to have emerged almost 2000 years ago somewhere between Europe and the Middle East, Tehrani reports today in PLOS ONE.

«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.

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.

«Evil Queen» by Nathaniel Gold In the classic Scandinavian folktale «The Twelve Wild Ducks,» also known as «The Twelve Brothers» in Grimms» Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter - in - law's beautIn the classic Scandinavian folktale «The Twelve Wild Ducks,» also known as «The Twelve Brothers» in Grimms» Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter - in - law's beautin Grimms» Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter - in - law's beautin - law's beauty.

These multi-cultural eclipse folktales were researched and recorded by professional storytellers Cassandra Wye and Fran Stallings at the request of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, to engage a variety of audiences, particularly in preparation for the August 21 2017 Total Solar Eclipse.

• Tops and Bottoms is a particularly amusing folktale that takes place in a garden plot.

Apples have been referenced in folktales handed down throughout history.

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.

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.

A title card at the outset reads, in full, «The Witch: A New - England Folktale.»

Rafael Motamayor chats with writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez, and stars Carla Gugino and Abbey Lee on folktales, directing your partner, fainting in the theater and more... Where did you get the idea for Elizabeth Harvest?

Narrated by Alfre Woodard, John Henry is the longest short on the entire Blu - ray, clocking in at just under 11 minutes, but it's exceedingly colorful and snappily paced, even as the adaptation of this well - known folktale reaches its tragic conclusion.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's five - part miniseries, Penance — an episodic, small - screen work that is only being categorized as a movie because it's being screened in theaters — has a simple, pliable setup, pitched partway between folktale and cold - case procedural.

Wrona sets the Hebrew folktale of the dybbuk — a ghost that possesses the living — inside a Catholic wedding, accomplishing two things in the process.

A Tale of Two Sisters is based on an old Korean folktale of two sisters so abused by the capriciousness of the world that they're forced to take refuge in one another and within themselves.

Jessica Oreck's fantastical work combines animation, traditional storytelling, and contemporary nonfiction filmmaking styles to recount the Slavic folktale of the frightful Baba Yaga, a witch said to live in a woodland hut perched on chicken legs who roasts her guests for dinner.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

Set in 1630, New England before the Salem Witch Trials and subtitled as «A New England Folktale,» the film is unsettling and transfixing as one watches forbidding evil encroach upon a pastoral family of faith and the suspicion of the innocent escalating.

This semester, Lavender's students will make comparisons between the Moldovan folktales and their own, which follows discussions comparing forms of government, religions, and architecture and learning that Brittany Spears is as popular in Eastern Europe as she is in the United States.

«We were able to do what we do as teachers,» says theater arts teacher Judy Dove, who had students in her puppetry class make Asian - style rod puppets and write and perform folktales based on Popoviciu's Everest climb.

A folktales project is behind schedule because of lack of electricity, lack of heat in the school — which kept students home for several weeks — and infrequent access to computers at their school.

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.

«Weighing the Elephant» A math problem presented in a Chinese folktale exercises thinking skills.

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.»

Strip Designer Ask students to retell the sequence of events in a Revolutionary War battle, folktale, science experiment, or the states of matter in the context of a graphic novel.

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.

Folktales of Cooperation for Your K - 3 Class Are you looking for a fun and effective way of promoting the spirit of cooperation in your K through 3 classroom?

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

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.

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.

Once Upon a Time Fables, fairy tales, folktales, legends, myths, and tall tales — six literary genres that engage student interest — can be used in the classroom to inspire creative thinking and writing.