African Fables
The are West African stories featuring Anansi. He was a clever West African god who was thought to know everything about all stories.
Prepare respons to the following questions:
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1) how are the different from Aesop’s Fables? How are they the same?
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单页面优化2) Does each of the try to teach a lesson?
3) Do fables from tribal cultures have value in a modern day classroom?
4) Do you think the would be more interesting to boys or girls?
5) Besides dealing with the stories, are there any other activities you can u connected to tribal cultures that will help your students become more interested?
How Anansi Became a Spider
There was once a king who had the finest ram in the world.
When this ram happened to be grazing on Anansi's crops one day, Anansi threw a rock at it, hitting it between the eyes and killing it.
Anansi knew that the king would punish him for what he had done to the prize ram, and he immediately schemed how to get out of the situation. Needless to say, Anansi resorted to trickery. 地陷
Anansi went to sat under a tree to think of an escape when, all of a sudden, a nut fell and struck him on the head. Anansi immediately had an idea. First, he took the dead ram and tied it to the nut tree. Then he went to a spider and told it of a wonderful tree laden with nuts.
怎么取消自动编号The spider was delighted and immediately went to the tree. Anansi then went to the king and told him that the spider had evidently killed the prize ram; the ram was hanging from a tree where the spider was spinning webs. The king flew into a rage and demanded the death penalty for the spider.
房间平面图The king thanked Anansi and offered him a great reward. Anansi returned to the spider and warned it of the king's wrath, crying out to the whole world that the spider had killed the ram. The spider was very confud.
Anansi told the spider to go to the king and plead for mercy, and perhaps the spider's life would be spared. Meanwhile, the king had gone home for lunch and told his wife what happened. The wife laughed and said, "Have you lost your mind? How on earth could a little spider make a thread strong enough to hold a ram? How in the world could that little spider hoist the ram up there? Don't you know, Anansi obviously killed your ram!"
The king was angry that he had been deceived and told his court to fetch Anansi immediately. When the king's men came for him, Anansi assumed that it was to bring him to the palace for his reward for turning in the spider. So Anansi went along willingly. He walked into the palace as if he owned the place and then said to the king, "Well, what is my reward for the killer of your ram?"
This enraged the king so much that he kicked Anansi, splitting him into two pieces; he wa
s no longer a man, but a spider with long legs.
学生评语大全简短>儿童成长记录Anansi and the Chameleon
Anansi was rich and owned the finest fields in the area, while the Chameleon was poor and worked hard in his meager fields to make ends meet. However, one year rain fell on Chameleon's fields, which were now abundant with beautiful crops. To teach Anansi a lesson, God let no rain fell on Anansi's land and the crops dried up, and dust blew everywhere.
Anansi then resolved to take Chameleon's fields for himlf. Anansi first tried to buy the fields, but Chameleon refud to ll. Anansi offered more and more in exchange, but Chameleon still held on to the land. Early one morning, Anansi walked boldly down the road to Chameleon's fields and began harvesting the crops.
When Chameleon saw this, he became very angry and chad Anansi away. When a chameleon walks, it leaves no tracks; it is virtually impossible to tell where a chameleon h
as been. Knowing this, Anansi took Chameleon to the tribal court to sue for posssion of the fields.
The chief asked Chameleon to prove that the fields were his; Chameleon had no proof to offer. Anansi, on the other hand, took the chief to Chameleon's fields, showing the many footprints on the road. The were Anansi's footprints, and the chief awarded the fields to Anansi right then and there.
Although the court decision gave the land to Anansi, God has a higher justice than that which the courts mete out. Chameleon dug a deep, deep hole and put a roof on it. From the outside, the hole looked tiny. But, in fact, Chameleon had dug a vast cavern under-ground. Then the Chameleon took some vines and some flies and made a cloak. When the sun hits flies, they shine a variety of colours, but they are still flies.
