I promised I'd tell you about my class, and since it has taken over my brain, here it is.

Make Your Own Myth: Trickster Tales is a course I created. It's offered offered through Vermont's Talent Development Institute, two one-week programs for gifted children. We spend time talking about tricksters in different cultures and about similarities ( Read more... )

And that, dear audience, is what you can do with a trickster who is a flying, radioactive cheese puff.
I hope you enjoy it and I'd love your feedback.

At the end of the week everyone had a copy of Bobbo to take home and I encouraged them to write their own version. I promised I'd write mine, and here it is:

Bobbo, The Wonder Trickster Gets a Wife
The Trickster Master's Version

In a far-off world where the land god ruled over yellow grasses and blue forests, the air god ruled over skies of green, and ( Read more... )

Last week (but now it all seems long, long ago) I taught 13 Gremlins (you know who you are!) ages 9-14 about mythological tricksters. They created their own tricksters, wrote a tale to go with them, and then we worked as a group. If you want to see what 11 boys, 2 girls, and 1 teacher came up with, read

Bobbo, the Wonder Trickster, Gets a Wife

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