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World Mythology: Tricksters
Class experience
US Grade 4 - 7
Tricksters exist in the myths and folktales of cultures around the world. Tricksters are mysterious, fascinating, funny and - just sometimes - evil. It is incredible that trickster tales developed across all continents of the world, and in this class, we will get to meet many of them. We will get to go deep into what it means to be a trickster. We will see why they are important, and what role they play in culture. We will compare tricksters cross-culturally, looking at how each story...
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.
SOURCES: 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.
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 classes1x per week, 8 weeks
55 min
Completed by 45 learners
Live video meetings
Ages 9-13
3-12 learners per class