SSP Les 4 - Origin Stories

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 3

Previous weeks

• Protagonist/antagonist/side characters
• Myth/legend/folktale
• Story mountain 

Assignment: 

- make a word list with translations

- read one short story a week + assignments

Myth

Legend

Folktale

A story about a woman who saved her town from pirates, by pretending to be a mermaid and luring them away

A story about fish-like creatures that hunt down swimming children

A story about how Zeus destroyed a city by throwing lightning bolts 

In the story of Cinderella, who is the protagonist?

1. Prince Charming
2. Cinderella
3. Lady Tremaine
4. The Fairy Godmother

In the story of Cinderella, who is the antagonist?

1. Prince Charming
2. Cinderella
3. Lady Tremaine
4. The Fairy Godmother

In the story of Cinderella, who are the side characters?

1. Prince Charming
2. Cinderella
3. Lady Tremaine
4. The Fairy Godmother

At the ball, Cinderella meets Prince Charming. 

Cinderella's stepmother would not let her go to the ball

Cinderella found out there would be a ball, and wishes she could go

The Fairy Godmother shows up, makes Cinderella look gorgeous, and sends her off to the ball!

Cinderella was  a sweet girl who lived with her mean stepmother and stepsisters, in a nice house in France.

TCinderella dances with Prince Charming, and they really like each other

When the clock strikes midnight, Cinderella has to leave, before she was able to tell the prince her name! On he way out, she loses a shoe

Prince Charming takes Cinderella with him, they get married and live happily ever after

Prince Charming really wants to know who this lovely lady was, and visits every girl in the country, to figure out whose shoe it was. Finally, he finds Cinderella!

ORIGIN STORIES

Mavo 3

Short story lesson #4

What are origin stories?

- The stories we tell about how things came to be

- Usually revolve around a divine creature

- Stories about how the earth was created (creation story)

- Stories that might explain why we are here

- Stories that explain the beginning of a culture

- Every culture has its own origin stories

Origin story - Māori

Māori have many stories relating to the creation of the Earth, people and Gods. An important story is that of Ranginui the Sky Father and Papatūānuku the Earth Mother. Rangi and Papa lay together in a tight embrace. They held each other so tightly that no light could get through and the world was in darkness.

Rangi and Papa had many children who lived between them. The children wondered what light was like and were fed up with living in darkness, cramped between their parents. Tāne Mahuta, the God of the forest, decided that they should split their parents apart so the Sky would be above them and the Earth beneath their feet.

After all his brothers were unable to separate their parents, Tāne Mahuta put his head to the ground and used his feet to kick away his father Rangi. With Rangi and Papa separated, in came the world of light  and humans flourished on the Earth. 

Is this story a...

1. Myth
2. Legend
3. Folktale

Dreamtime - Aboriginal origin story

- The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of its creation, and its stories

-  Ancestor Beings broke through the crust of the earth, time began 

- The sun rose, first light

- Ancestor Beings changed the form of the land

- Creation of  mountains, rivers, trees, waterholes, and sandhills

- Creation of all animals and food plants

- Creation of humans, their descendants

- Creation of elements and celestial bodies

- Then sank back into the earth and returned to their state of sleep

- Still a lot of respect

The Rainbow Serpent

Protector of water, who created all rivers and waterholes

People pay respect to her by singing and rubbing dirt on their bodies

Don't offend her!

Is the story I just told a myth, legend, or folktale, and WHY?

00:20

Each culture only has one origin story

1. True
2. False

01:31

Once a Creator has created the earth, he will not create more.

1. True
2. False

01:54

First

Then

Finally

Later

The creator did not know what to do

The creator created animals

The creator meditated and heard a scared sound, that enabled him to create the earth

The creator created male and female

Dus! Een origin story is..?