Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 10A | All Stories Are Anansi’s 167
Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes
Story Review
- Remind students that they heard the classic tale, “The Tale of Peter
Rabbit.” Using their sequence of the story (Instructional Master 9B-1),
have students retell the story with their partner or with home language
peers. - Remind students of the lesson Peter Rabbit should have learned.
(Peter should have listened to his mother and not gone into Mr.
McGregor’s garden. Peter should not have caused mischief.)
Introducing “All Stories Are Anansi’s”
- Tell students that today they will hear a folktale that was probably
first told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, a country in the continent
of Africa. [You may wish to have a student point to the continent of
Africa. Then locate the country Ghana for students.] - Ask students: “What does it mean to say that this is an African
folktale?” (This means that this story is a story from Africa that was
told long, long ago from person to person.) - Tell students that many Ashanti tales begin with the same lines: [Have
students repeat these lines with you.]
“We do not really mean, We do not really mean
that what we are going to say is true.”
Invite volunteers to share what they think these lines mean. Explain
that this means the stories are not really true; they are fiction.
Picture Walk
- Tell students that you will take a picture walk through this story
together.
Show image 10A-2: Nyame and Anansi - Identify the characters in this picture: Nyame [nye-AH-mee]—the sky
god—and Anansi—the spider.
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