Week 2 Reading Overview
Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4.
Week 3:The Iliad
Week 4: The Odyssey (Jewish Fairytales)
Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.
Week 5: Arabian Nights
Week 6: Twenty-Two Goblins (Tales of a Parrot)
Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9.
Week 7: Monkey King Sun Wu Kung (Japanese Fairy Tales - Lang)
Week 9: Brer Rabbit (West African Folktales)
Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.
Week 10: Alaskan Legends
Week 11: Myths of the Cherokee
Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.
Week 12: Beowulf (Ballad of Robin Hood)
Week 13: Aesop's Fables (King Arthur)
Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.
Week 14: Czech Folktales
Week 15: Dante's Inferno (Hans Christian Andersen)
I'm especially looking forward to the British/Celtic weeks, as well as the European weeks. These units offer a nice blend of stories that I've always intended to read (i.e. Beowulf), the medieval fantasy setting that I've always enjoyed, and interesting twists on tales I'm already familiar with (i.e. the real version of The Little Mermaid, not the Disney retelling).
There are quite a few units in the UnTextbook that look interesting to me, so I'll probably try to do a few of the extra credit reading assignments to work on the parenthetical units. Right now, I'm at about a 50-50 split between weeks where I have extra reading and weeks where I don't, so I think the workload should be pretty manageable.
I'd be interested in tackling some Roman mythology as well, as I'm a little bit more familiar with the Greek pantheon.
Week 3:The Iliad
Week 4: The Odyssey (Jewish Fairytales)
Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.
Week 5: Arabian Nights
Week 6: Twenty-Two Goblins (Tales of a Parrot)
Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9.
Week 7: Monkey King Sun Wu Kung (Japanese Fairy Tales - Lang)
Week 9: Brer Rabbit (West African Folktales)
Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.
Week 10: Alaskan Legends
Week 11: Myths of the Cherokee
Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.
Week 12: Beowulf (Ballad of Robin Hood)
Week 13: Aesop's Fables (King Arthur)
Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.
Week 14: Czech Folktales
Week 15: Dante's Inferno (Hans Christian Andersen)
I'm especially looking forward to the British/Celtic weeks, as well as the European weeks. These units offer a nice blend of stories that I've always intended to read (i.e. Beowulf), the medieval fantasy setting that I've always enjoyed, and interesting twists on tales I'm already familiar with (i.e. the real version of The Little Mermaid, not the Disney retelling).
There are quite a few units in the UnTextbook that look interesting to me, so I'll probably try to do a few of the extra credit reading assignments to work on the parenthetical units. Right now, I'm at about a 50-50 split between weeks where I have extra reading and weeks where I don't, so I think the workload should be pretty manageable.
I'd be interested in tackling some Roman mythology as well, as I'm a little bit more familiar with the Greek pantheon.
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| A sculpture of the Roman god Jupiter in the Louvre. Source: Wikipedia Commons. |
Oh, this is GREAT, Spencer! You are the first person to start on Week 2, and I am glad the instructions made sense. I had changed that assignments around some because I wanted to encourage people to be more adventurous about doing future readings for extra credit if they are really interested in the British or European units which come later in the semester. And I saw you picked Brer Rabbit; that is my own new project! I got a good start in December, and will be spending all my spare time working on Brer Rabbit this semester with an All-Rabbit summer to come. Here's my Brer Rabbit website if you are curious: Brer Rabbit: Tales of a Trickster. I LOVE THAT RABBIT. :-)
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