Topic: Life lessons from Aesop
Comments: I really love Aesop's fables, so I would definitely be interested in doing a storybook focusing on the most important morals (in my opinion, at least). I would have the storybook set up as if it were the class website for MORAL 1113: Life Lessons taught be Professor Aesop, a special guest professor at the University of Ancient Greece. One story would be learning from the wisdom of a character, another from the foolishness of a character, and a third from the cunning of a character.
Possible stories: I read a bunch of Aesop stories for my reading unit this week and I would likely use this unit to find stories I'm interested in rewriting. There's also another reading unit of Aesop's that I did not read and could be a source of additional stories, if necessary.
Sample story comments: I really liked The Lion and the Statue and this could be the wisdom story in my storybook. I really enjoy the insight the lion gives to the bragging human.
Bibliography information:
Sample story: The Lion and the Statue
Book title:
Book author: Joseph Jacobs
Year: 1902
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| The Lion and the Statue illustration by Walter Crane |
Topic: Dark and Mythical Creatures
Comments: This would also be set up like a class website but this time for Hagrid's NEWT level care of magical creature class. I was thinking of ways to possible include the Harry Potter series into my storybook somehow and this idea just came to me. I've always enjoyed learning about mythical creatures, so this topic could be a great fit and an enjoyable project for me to work on.
Possible stories: There are a lot of source for mythical beast stories under the example topics page of the class blog. I found lots of online books from websites like sacredtexts.com, the Aberdeen bestiary site, and Charles Gould's Mythical Monsters book. I would like to have stories about at least three creatures, possible werewolves, dragons, sphinx, mermaids, or maybe basilisks!
Sample story comments: I found an interesting story about a witch who turned herself into a wolf which could be a good tie-in to the Harry Potter theme of the storybook. It also had a cool description of the witch mid-transformation as she's turning back into a human.
Bibliography information:
Sample story: A Witch as Werewolf
Website: Werewolf Legends from Germany
Topic: Marriage Stories of the Tlingit Nation
Comments: I found these stories to be very interesting because they were unlike many marriage or love stories I had heard before. They were all mostly sad or had unusual endings or plots. Although different from what I am used to, reading unfamiliar stories keeps the reading interesting and helps expand the way we think about certain stories.
Possible stories: There were some stories that I found on sacredtexts.com as well as different Native American story eBooks that I could use. There was also a helpful section called Myths and Legends of Alaska. I also personally own a book with a lot of Native American stories and some of them might be Tlingit stories.
Sample story comments: One of my favorite stories I came across was The Woman Who Married the Fire Spirit, which reminded me a little bit of the story of Persephone. In the end, the woman leave her fire spirit husband and remains in the human world, though she is quite unhappy.
Bibliography information:
Sample story: The Woman Who Married the Fire Spirit
Book title: Tlingit Myths and Texts
Book author: John R. Swanton
Year: 1909
Topic: The Real Housewives of Far Far Away
Comments: I'm an avid reader of fairy tales, old and new, so it was likely that a fairy tale related storybook idea would come to me. I've always wondered what happened after "happily ever after" and my stories would explore that, based on certain princess stories. What are their lives like after "the end?"
Possible stories: There are endless possibilities for stories and sources of stories. You have the popular princess stories (although, most of them don't actually start out as princesses): Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid. You also have the long list of popular authors to choose from: the brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson, just to name a few. There are endless books and websites with fairy tale stories.
Sample story comments: Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite fairy tales (and, coincidentally, Disney movies) and one of the main reasons is that I've thought a lot about what their lives would be like after the spell was broken.
Bibliography information:
Sample story: Beauty and the Beast
Website: Beauty and the Beast
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