Help me give my students These stories are critical for helping students relating myth and legends into folklore.
$590 goal
This project expired on July 25, 2020.
This project expired on July 25, 2020.
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My students come to me to experience new ideas from various cultures literature surveying the globe. These brave students have signed up for a Dual Credit class adventuring into a chance to research what they want and teach with as few restrictions as possible. By setting the ladder higher, these student have shown academic achievement that far surpasses regular core courses; when the pupil sets their own standards the ladder disappears and the student is the teacher.
This might be my students only chance to delve into ancient stories at a college level and passionately show their fellow students new worlds of untapped literature.
So many of my students want to head right to college after high school but many are working to support their families in some fashion. Education becomes a compromise or a fantasy. Others are going to get their start at community college for years before jumping into the dedicated research.
My Project
This is the 6th time I have taught Duel Credit World Myths and Legends. This is a class that I wrote about a decade ago, inspired by my own high school mythology class. After researching the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle East, Polynesian, African, Norse, Chinese, Japanese, and Native American, the class heads into folklore. For all of the other cultures myths and legends, the class has utilizes written literature supporting their research but we do not have written folklore.
Every time the folklore unit gets introduced, my students hopes are dashed because we do not have written text supporting their research, "what do you mean we don't have folklore books?" For the past two years, my district rejected my request for any folklore text but I keep promising my students that I will try.
The novels would be used in part as the unit four text and a base for research projects. In each unit students will work in small groups and individually research what they want with approval. After choosing a topic students sort out a way to retell the stories to the class, analyze the folklore thematically, as well as connecting stories to the past, present, and future. After presenting the information, the rest of the class peer analyzes the project and even grades their classmates. This process will help students figure out the difference between folklore, myths, and legends as well as not only see but show the line between folklore and modern mythology. Your help would literally make rhetorical questions about literature real answerable questions.
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