Teaching with the Fables: A Holistic Approach

Title

en_US Teaching with the Fables: A Holistic Approach

Description

en_US Written and illustrated by Sieglinde de Francesca

Creator

en_US Francesca, Sieglinde de

Contributor

en_US Written and illustrated by Sieglinde de Francesca

Date

2016-01-25T19:53:45Z

en_US 2008-04

en_US 2007

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:53:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US This is a spiral-bound 61-page manual for teaching the fables in a holistic and living way, as the back cover puts it The book's sub-title gives a good sense of what is here: Teaching with the fable as: extended tale, poem, illustration, play, puppet show & natural science lesson. The introduction speaks of the evolution of the individual child. The child moves from the dream-like world of fairy tales to the humorous, self revealing world of the fables. The veiled world of magic, of archetypes, of 'happily ever after', gradually lifts to expose the world of the individual, a self, separate from the archetype (3). De Francesca, a homeschool teacher and consultant in the Bay Area, goes on to suggest that around age 8, or when in the second grade, is the time for the child to hear stories that reveal the human moral contest between right and wrong (3). The book offers a formula, or approach, to manifesting a broad, fun, creative, integrated lesson plan around a relatively simple subject. I am happy to see this approach begin with the possibility of allowing the child to discover the fable's real message by using their own powers of feeling and perception (7). The author's particular approach is to expand the fable story. One expands the story with a description of the setting and a full characterization of the principal actors. There is a helpful list on 29 of natural science lessons contained in popular fables. Part 2 of the booklet offers three sample expanded fables: LM (33), The Bear and the Bees (41), and CP (48). A valuable appendix on 53 categorizes twenty-five Aesopic fables for their moral messages, values, dramatic quality, and natural science lessons. Eight colored examples of art responding to the fables follow on 58-61. Unfortunately, typographical errors mar this educational work. There is a run-on sentence at the bottom of 9, for example, and we read on 10 the phrase that mice have been know to think out a strategy.

Identifier

en_US 9781604616217

en_US 6288 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81619

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Copyright Sieglinde de Francesca

en_US [S.l.]

Subject

en_US LB1573 .F736 2007

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole