This week I read, South African Folktales. These stories are
a lot different than the fables and tales that I have been reading in the past.
However, the one connection that I can draw from all of the readings that I
have done this year, except week 1, all have animals as their main characters.
I think that this really makes the stories interesting and brings the animals
to life. In this unit, I liked how many animals were brought into single
stories. In all of the stories combined, I bet that there were 15 animals
mentioned. This makes the readings more fun because you are not just reading
about the same two animals.
In this unit, I was able to connect the stories to the
background of Africa. In the past, I was relying on the notes provided to do
this for me, but this week some of the connections were made a lot clearer. For
example, The dance for water, was very easy to connect back to African culture. I
believe that there is no extra background information needed for this unit. Most
of the stories were very straight forward and were easy to understand. There
was however, one story that I had to read more than once to understand. This does
not mean that it needs notes, because it could just be how I read it the first
time.
Overall, the readings for this unit are very easy and not
boring. This unit is suitable for most people. The information given about this
unit is very accurate and helpful in choosing a unit. I do believe that you can
decide if you are going to like this unit or not by the information provided on
the first page.
Another thing
that I noticed in this unit that I enjoyed was the pictures. All of the
pictures provided
for each story really did a good job of representing the
story overall. They helped in picturing what
was going on.
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