Traditional Traditional LiteratureLiterature

By Sarah Bourgeois

SLM503

ObjectiveObjective

By the end of this PowerPoint you should be able to:

1. Explain the differences between fable, folktales, and myths.

2. Give an example of a fable, folktale, and myth.

Which story is aWhich story is a

Elephant & HareRed Riding

Hood Leaping Match

Fable?Fable?

Myth?Myth?

myth

Folktale?Folktale?

FolktaleFairytale/Folktale

Fable

Kite, Hawk & Pigeons

FolktaleFolktale• In EVERY culture• Simple story with strong

plot

• Themes:– Wise vs. foolish– Romance– Adventure/magical land– Magical animal solves

problem– Beast is changed by love

•Fairytales are a modern, magical, extraordinary version of folktales.

FableFable

• Brief tales where an animal speaks and solves problems and teaches the reader a moral lesson.

• Click here for Aesop’s Fables– Fox and the Grapes

MythMyth• Explain the world and man through tangible symbols.• Some stories clash with science

• Themes: –Flood–Killing monsters–Sibling rivalry–Heroic deeds

STORIESSTORIES

• Remember, your goal will be to say which is a – Fable– Folktale– Myth

The Leaping MatchThe Leaping Match

• Click here for story

Little Red Riding Little Red Riding HoodHood

The Hawk, the Kite, The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeonsand the Pigeons

• THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.

The Moral? •Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

AfricaAfricaHare looked out over his field. If he was

going to have food to eat, he would have to plant a crop. But if he was going to plant a crop, he'd have to clear the field first. That was a lot of work — more work than Hare wanted to do.

Hare was a clever animal, so he soon had an idea. He dragged a length of rope behind him and lay in wait in the bushes outside his field. A big African elephant came lumbering along. Hare bet the elephant he could beat him in a tug-of-war. The large elephant laughed at the idea, coming as it did from such a small animal. He scooped up the rope with his trunk. Hare picked up the other end and scampered through the bushes and across his field. There he hid behind another row of bushes.

Africa Africa ContinuedContinuedSoon enough a muddy hippopotamus

waddled by. Hare dared the hippo to beat him in a tug-of-war. The proud hippo picked up the rope with his teeth. Hare hopped into the bushes and gave the rope a tug. When the elephant and the hippo felt the rope move, they each pulled hard. The powerful animals dragged the rope, back and forth, back and forth, until night fell. Each time the rope moved, it plowed another row in clever Hare's field.

Africa did not develop one overall myth system because Africa itself does not have one people, one history. Its different peoples speak more than 1,000 languages and its mythologies are just as vast and varied. African myths, legends, and tribal histories were shared through ritual storytelling, proverbs, chanted poems, or songs. Stories about wily animal tricksters like Hare or Anansi the Spider, are particularly popular.

Which story is aWhich story is a

Elephant & HareRed Riding

Hood Leaping Match

Fable?Fable?

Myth?Myth?

myth

Folktale?Folktale?

FolktaleFairytale/Folktale

Fable

Kite, Hawk & Pigeons

Other IdeasOther Ideas• Act out your favorite story.

• Write your own myth, folktale or fairytale- lesson at http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/

•With stories that use other languages play Simon Says (Simon Digas) with the body parts that have been learned.

•Discuss the different reoccurring themes and types of characters that are found in the tales read.

•Compare and contrast the same story as written by different cultures.

•Eat foods and show maps of the cultures represented.

Great SitesGreat Sites

• Aesop’s Fables http://www.umass.edu/aesop/• Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/

• Fairy Tales http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/fairytales.htm

• Recipes: http://www.gumbopages.com/recipe-page.html