The House Between Earth and Sky

Travel with storyteller and folklorist Joseph Daniel Sobol as he embarks on a journey of multicultural awareness and awakening. This book of multicultural and multilingual proverbs, beliefs, remedies, recipes and folktales collected by ESL students during a series of folklore and storytelling residencies at Chicago inner-city secondary schools. In this captivating teacher resource, Sobol chronicles his experiences in four Chicago schools as a visiting teacher and collector of multicultural folktales. With this resource you can expose your students to fables, wonder tales, and other ancient story genres, along with proverbs, remedies, recipes, and folktales from all over the world. Learn how to conduct your own classroom folktale residency by teaching the art of interviewing, gathering story elements, recording them in the original languages, and translating them into English. This sophisticated collection not only consists of marvelous accounts from far-away lands, it brings them to life in the classroom and encourages educators to incorporate similar resources in their own multicultural classrooms.

ISBN 1591580803   DEWEY 398.0973 ISBN13 9781591580805 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher ABC-CLIO   Pages 146 Imprint Libraries Unlimited Inc   Volumes 1 Format Hardback   Weight (grammes) 386 Publication date 30 Jan 2005   Published in Englewood Library of Congress GR105.S56   Academic level General

		Introduction : the education tree
Pt. 1		The rivers of folklore		1
1		Week one : to begin		3
2		Week two : proverbs and beliefs		15
3		Weeks three and four : remedies, recipes, crafts, and stories		25
Pt. 2		The ocean of story		39
		Latin America		41
		Eastern Europe		61
		The Middle East		83
		Africa		97
		Asia		113

?Sobol established residencies in Chicago public schools with a dual purpose: to help English language learners--immigrant students from across the globe--bridge cultural divides and to train these students in collecting and recording folk stories from their elders. He provides a thorough description of the process along with a collection of the stories gathered. A useful tool for tapping into the cultural experiences of students and/or establishing similar programs.?-Curriculum Connections/School Library Journal

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