Below is a sample of the African folk tales created by third graders. These tales were then used as inspiration for a three-dimensional mask. Pictures of the masks coming soon!
The Shadow
The shadow is an African legend. The shadow is awake while
you sleep. The shadow lives a life of its own.
-Breanna
Anansi makes
his Mark
Once in Africa an old and wise spider names Anansi was thinking
to himself. “Why does sky god think python is so perfect? No one is perfect and
I will prove it to sky god”
When he talked to him sky god was angry and said “I will
only believe you if you can trap python in a web that he cannot escape. Only
then will I admit I was wrong. If I win you can never use your wisdom again for
good. So Anansi tied python to a rock and no matter how hard he tried he could
not get away. In return, sky god held a ceremony in which sky god vowed to
never call someone perfect again.
-Katie
