Week 2 Reading Overview

Below is the reading plan that I have crafted for myself for this semester:

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

Week 3: Saints and Animals

Week 4: Aesop's Fables (Jacobs)

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

Week 5: Santal Folklore

Week 6: Sindbad

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

Week 7: Nigeria

Week 9: China

Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.

Week 10: Great Plains

Week 11: Alaska

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

Week 12: English Fairy Tales

Week 13: Celtic Tales

Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.

Week 14: Brothers Grimm (Hunt)

Week 15: Dante's Inferno

(Aesop's Fables book cover, doodidooda)

Of the units that I've selected above, I think there are several that I'm excited about.  Any of the stories that feature animal mythology are fascinating to me, because I love reading about animals, even when they are anthropomorphized.  I'm also intrigued by Dante's Inferno, since I've heard good things about it but have never read it, and Nigeria, as I don't have much experience with African mythology.  I'm not sure that there's anything not listed here that I've been eager to read (at least, nothing that comes to mind immediately).