Library in First Grade
Anansi
Anansi Stories are part of an ancient mythology that is rooted in West African folklore and concerns the interaction between divine and semi-divine beings, royalty, humans, animals, plants and seemingly inanimate objects. These stories continue to provide a moral foundation for the community. Anansi the Spider existed from the time when deities, humans and animals were able to converse with each other.
How and Why Stories
A collection of twenty-five traditional stories explaining why an animal, plant or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Before each story we discuss where the story originated and find it on the globe. After we read the story we discuss whether it is fact or fiction. We pick out which details in the story are fact or fiction.
