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World Mythology: Tricksters

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Jonny Walker (he/him) - MA (Uni of Cambridge)
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Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(611)
Across eight weeks, meet tricksters from myths and folktales around the world. Sly, creative, cunning, playful... evil?

Class experience

US Grade 4 - 7
Students will deepen their knowledge of the anthropological concept of the Trickster
They will learn about the similarities and differences between tales from a range of world mythologies
They will develop the skills of self-reflection, applying the stories to their own lives
I am a primary-trained teacher with 11 years experience. I work in UK schools as a specialist mythology and poetry educator, and have 2+ years experience teaching rich, intellectual and accessible mythology lessons on Outschool. My experience as a specialist educator enables me to confidently and skilfully manage the complex dynamics of rich, discussion-based classes with mixed-age and mixed-ability groups.
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Mythology often invites open and reflective discussion about big universal themes, such as life and death. Tales often have violent edge to them. As I do in all of my classes, I use my 11+ years of professional judgement to frame the lessons in ways that feel safe and fully age-appropriate.
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Listed for each lesson individually

Lesson 1 - Puck, Lange Wapper and Changeling Children (Western European)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) - William Shakespeare
- The Changeling (1622) - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley 
- British Folk Tales (1991) - Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Between Worlds (2018) - Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Atlas Obscura - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lange-wapper-statue
- Amazing Belgium - https://www.amazingbelgium.be/2015/10/lange-wapper-legendary-giant-of-antwerp.html

Lesson 2 - The Greatest Hits of Loki (Scandinavian)
- Loki - Louie Stowell
- Prose Edda
- Poetic Edda
- The Penguin Book of Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
- Mythology - Edith Hamilton 

Lesson 3 - Anansi (West Africa)
- The Pot of Wisdom: Ananse Stories - Adwoa Badoe and Baba Wagué Diakite
- Jamaican Anansi Stories - Martha Warren Beckwith
- African and Caribbean Folktales and Myths - Wendy Shearer
- Anancy and the Snake - National Museum of Jamaica - https://youtu.be/OXR5kVU2gSg
- The Mystery Feats - Ben Okri

Lesson 4 - Mulla Nasruddin: The Wise Fool (Across the Islamic World)
- The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasruddin - Idries Shah
- Trickster Makes the World - Lewis Hydes
- Nasreddin Hodja - Raj Arumugam
- Riding a Donkey Backwards - Sean Taylor and Khayaal Theatre
- Mulla Nasruddin - Samparna Chattarji

Lesson 5 - Eris, Hermes, Dionysus: Greek Trickery  (Ancient Greek)
- Theoi - www.theoi.com
- Mythologica - Dr Steve Kershaw and Victoria Topping
- Trickster Makes the World - Lewis Hydes
- Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan
- Encyclopaedia of World Mythology - Arthur Cotterill
- The Adventures of Hermes, God of Thieves - Murielle Szac 

Lesson 6 - Tanuki, Kitsuni and Jiraiya (Japanese)
- Encyclopaedia of World Mythology - Arthur Cotterill
- Japanese Mythology Collection - Iwaya Sazanami
- The Book of Oni and Other Mischievous Spirits - Hideo Takahasi, Nippon Publishing House

Lesson 7 - Fox Pranx: Reynard and Kuma Lisa (Pan-European)
- Reynard the Fox - John Masefield
- Reynard the Fox: Tales from the Life of Reynard the Fox - Renate Raecke
- The Illustrated Bestiary - Maia Toll
- The Amazing Bone - William Steig
- Kuma Lisa (University of Arts London) - https://gameartsrotation.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2020/11/08/research-kuma-lisa-bulgarian-folklore/
- The Fox and the Cat - Ukrainian Folktalez - https://fairytalez.com/the-fox-and-the-cat-robert-nisbet-bain/

Lesson 8 - Learning from Tricksters
- No additional sources used.

I will be designing the course content using materials online and offline which draw upon a broad global tradition, rather than centring the classes on European interpretations of world myth.
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UPDATE

I will soon be coming away from Outschool, as I will be teaching in schools across India. 

When I get back to the UK, I may be scheduling some Outschool classes, mostly for students I currently work with, but am not putting the dates in... 
Group Class

$19

weekly or $152 for 8 classes
1x per week, 8 weeks
55 min

Completed by 45 learners
Live video meetings
Ages 9-13
3-12 learners per class

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