Paideía & Praxís - Cycle 4 Tales

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Cycle 4: Tales

Folk Stories, Myths, & Great Tales

Form 0/1 Booklist*

*for sensitive students not ready for Norse myths or some violent themes in Beowulf and tales

A Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen (Haugaard tr.): Weeks 1-11 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]
Russian Fairy Tales: Palekh Painting (Orleansky): Weeks 12-20 [Buy/ Listen/ Schedule], and/or optional picture books:
- Alyosha's Apple: A Tale of Old Russia (Currier)
- Papa Panov's Special Day: A Classic Folk Tale for Christmas (Holder) *Rd. wk. 14 before Nativity break
- The Miracle of Saint Nicholas (Whelan) *Rd. wk. 14
- Luba and the Wren (Polacco)
- The Littlest Matryoshka (Bliss)
- The Frog Princess (Lewis)
- The Gigantic Turnip (Tolstoy)
- The Tale of the Firebird (Spirin)
- The Fool and the Fish (Afanasyev)
- The Three Questions (Muth/ Tolstoy)
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Zipes tr.): Weeks 21-30 [Buy/ Read online (2003 version)/ Listen/ Schedule]

Forms 1/2 Booklist

Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children (Marshall): Weeks 1-5 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths (D'Aulaire): Weeks 6-11 [Buy/ Read online/ Schedule]
- OR The Heroes of Asgard (Keary) [Buy/ AO Book Help/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule] *only if you've already read D'Aulaire
Russian Fairy Tales: Palekh Painting (Orleansky): Weeks 12-14 [Buy/ Listen/ Schedule] *see optional picture books in Form 0/1
A Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen (Haugaard tr.): Weeks 15-20 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]
Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children (Macgregor): Weeks 21-25 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Zipes tr.): Weeks 26-30 [Buy/ Read online (2003 version)/ Listen (2014 version)/ Schedule]

C4: Tales_F1

Forms 2-4 Booklist & Schedule

Beowulf (Morpurgo): Weeks 1-4 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]
The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths (Colum): Weeks 5-14 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule] *
- OR The Heroes of Asgard (Keary) [Buy/ AO Book Help/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule] *trends younger than Colum's
In a Certain Kingdom: Fairy Tales of Old Russia (Kotar): Weeks 15-17 [Buy/ Listen (selections)/ Schedule]
In a Certain Kingdom: Epic Heroes of the Rus (Kotar): Weeks 18-20 [Buy/ Schedule]
The Story of Siegfried (Baldwin): Weeks 21-30 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]

*Notes: May want to skip Part 5 at the end of The Children of Odin ("The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods"), since it summarizes the same story as 3rd term's The Story of Siegfried (with variations) OR read both and compare!

C4: Tales_F2-4

Form 4 Booklist & Schedule

Beowulf (Liuzza tr.): Weeks 1-4 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]
Prose Edda (Faulkes tr.): Weeks 5-10 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen (Anderson tr.)/Schedule]
Poetic Edda (Crawford tr.): Weeks 11-14 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/Schedule]
In a Certain Kingdom: Fairy Tales of Old Russia (Kotar): Weeks 15-17 [Buy/ Listen (selections)/ Schedule]
In a Certain Kingdom: Epic Heroes of the Rus (Kotar): Weeks 18-20 [Buy/ Schedule]
The Saga of the Volsungs (Crawford tr.): Weeks 21-30 [Buy/ Read online/ Listen/ Schedule]

Teacher Resources

Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (Guroian): An important resource for fairy tales, that discusses Cycle 4's The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, Charlotte's Web, Bambi, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and Han's Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen
Beowulf: A Universal History Course: A 6-week course on Beowulf through Symbolic World by Dcn. Seraphim Richard Rohlin and Jonathan Pageau (can be purchased and completed at your own pace)
Resources for the study of Beowulf
Beowulf for Beginners Re-telling
[Podcast] The Great Tales: Beowulf, An Enochic Apocalypse with Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick and Dcn. Seraphim Richard Rohlin, via Ancient Faith
The Symbolic World: Tales for Once and Ever: "A series which will culminate into eight interwoven fairy tales written for children and adults alike. Each of these classic stories are being retold in a way that draws out their deep symbolism while still honoring the simple narrative styles of old, inviting us to remember and rediscover childhood enchantment, and to reawaken our deep heritage of myth and story - a heritage that still has deep secrets to reveal after all these centuries." Vol 1 - Snow White and the Widow Queen, Vol 2 - Jack and the Fallen Giants, Vol 3 - Rapunzel and the Evil Witch, Vol 4 - The Valiant Little Tailor (Upcoming), Vol 5 - Sleeping Beauty (Upcoming), Vol 6 - The Boy and the Giant (Upcoming), Vol 7 - Rumplestiltskin (Upcoming), Vol 8 - Cinderella (Upcoming)