Monday, February 16, 2015

Reading Diary A: West African Folktales


This is the first story in this unit. I was hooked by just the title. It made me want to know what the story was going to be about and it give me the feeling that this was the background for the unit. By just the title I thought it was going to be about a real spider, however, the spider is a person! The story did a great job of explaining the three things. 

I really enjoyed this story. Just like the first story I was hooked by the title. I was really curious where this story was going to go. I think that this story could be used for storytelling because you can really use your imagination. The author had a very unique way of explaining how wisdom escaped to humans. 


This story was very interesting. The notes provided helped in understanding that the white ants are actually termites. This is a great story to tell why the white ants are such a pest. This could be retold in many ways for our storytelling post. 

Overall, all of the stories had very intriguing titles. They are made you want to read how and why so and so do something. I wanted to keep reading this unit and am excited about the second half of the unit. 


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