Week 2 Reading Overview

Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4.

Week 3: Cupid and Psyche 

Week 4: Bible Women

Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.

Week 5: Ramayana

Week 6: Fables of Bidpai

Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9. [Week 8 is review week.]

Week 7: South Africa Folktales 

Week 9: Brer Rabbit

Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.

Week 10: Alaska Anthology 

Week 11: Sioux

Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.

Week 12: Nursery Rhymes 

Week 13: Welsh (Emerson)

Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.

Week 14: Czech Fairytales 

Week 15: Hans Christian Anderson

(Found on Google Images, represents storytelling)

Reading through the expectations of storytelling for this semester, I am honestly really excited. I have always had a passion for writing and bringing ideas to life, so being given the freedom to do exactly that for this course is very encouraging.

    My reason for choosing this photo is because of the story itself tells. As the viewer, we are able to come up with our own context of what the backstory could be. But, what's common for any interpretation, is that the speaker is captivating the audience. Whatever words, gestures, or emotion that is being transferred from the speaker to the people in the crowd engages them to want more; and that is what storytelling is all about. We have the ability to take people somewhere they've never been, and that's one of the greatest powers of storytelling.