Kalevala Fun Activities

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Kalevala Fun Activities

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Fables

What other books do these stories remind the students of? Ask them to relate as many of the stories as they can remember from childhood. What do these stories try to explain?

Children's stories

Ask the students to debate whether these stories are for children alone, or whether they might have something to teach adolescents or adults as well.

Creation myths

What other creation myths do students know? What other myths explain the way things are, and where crafts come from?

Finland

Ask students whether they have traveled to Finland. What were their impressions. Are the tales from the Kalevala still in circulation? Do they compare with American or European epics?

Comparing with other epics

What other epic poems do the students know? How is the Kalevala like the Iliad, the Odyssey, or the Old Testament? How is it different? How does it compare with the Aenied...

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