Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Week 12 Reading Diary B: Jataka Tales (Babbitt)

Jataka Tales (Babbitt)

The Golden Goose would be really cool to retell with another animal. It reminded me of that children's book about the fish with the sparkly scales. This would be fun to do with a porcupine, and alligator, a fish, a deer, maybe a snake shedding its skin.

 Many of the story's from this unit were about trickery, which are all very entertaining stories but ones I am not sure how to retell. I found it interesting that the trickster was a wolf the majority of the time (5 times actually). I wonder if this is because wolves were more prevalent than most other carnivores or if they were more difficult to deal with.

Beauty and Brownie was an interesting contrast of two different personalities. It makes me think of how different siblings can be from one another. This would also make a good storytelling. Possibly about birds migrating down south for the winter?






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