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Week 2 Reading Overview.

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Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4.

Week 3:Iliad

Week 4:Noah

Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.

Week 5: Life of Buddha

Week 6: Arabian Nights

Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9. [Week 8 is review week.]

Week 7: Japanese Mythology

Week 9: Chinese Fairytales

Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.

Week 10:American Indian Fairy Tales

Week 11: Blackfeet Indian Stories

Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.

Week 12: King Arthur

Week 13: Celtic Fairy Tales

Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.

Week 14: Italian Popular Tales

Week 15: Dante's Inferno

I am interested in these specific topics and chose them all specifically for different reasons. I may change them along the way depending on if my interest changes, but I am getting excited about this semester. I chose the Iliad because I feel like it is the classic example people discuss when it comes to Greek Mythology, I chose the story of Noah for week 4 because I am a history minor and have taken a fair amount of Jewish history courses and I think I would like to learn about it from a story and mythical standpoint. I chose the life of Buddha because I grew up learning a lot about different religions by living in China and I would like to revisit those specific ideals again. For week 6 I think it would be cool to learn about the story of Aladdin and the Lamp as well as other tales that accompany that story. Week 7 I chose Japanese mythology because I took a history of Eastern Asia class that dealt with Japanese culture and I want to learn more about that from a different topic. I don't know much about Native American mythology or folklore so I am interested to learn more about that in general. For the British and Celtic units I feel like a lot of these tales people commonly talk about and I am excited to find the root of the stories and read them finally. Then for the European units I am really excited to learn about Italian folklore because I have two very Italian grandmas that used to talk about the stories they heard when they lived over in Italy, and I want to be able to talk to them about it. 




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