Anansi a tale from the Ashanti The Spider
By: Gerald McDermott- Multicultural Literature
This book was a really great book on how families work together and also one could relate this book to team work. Anansi was a spider who had six sons and all of his sons had special powers. Anansi left home one day and he went really, really far away. Anansi got lost and his son See Trouble seen his father was in trouble so he told his others brothers. All of Anansi sons went out looking for him. The spiders found Anansi because Anansi son Road Builder built a road to reach their father and when they found Anansi a fish had eaten him, so his son River Drinker drank all of the water out of the river. Anansi son Game Skinner split the fish in half and once he did a Falcon came through and took Anansi into the sky. So Anansi son Stone Thrower threw a stone and hit the Falcon and Anansi fell through the sky. Anansi son Cushion seen him falling and ran to help his father. Anansi came down on Cushion, and the spider family was very happy. Anansi felt like his sons deserved a gift, so he asked Nyame to help him decide on which son to give a gift. Nyame and Anansi could not decide which son to give the gift to, so Nyame put the moon in the sky for everyone to use. I think this would be a good book to talk about family roles with students. Everyone has a role in their family however; some student’s roles are different from others. You could also teach the students how to work as a team, all of the spiders in the book worked together to accomplish one goal and that was to save their father. I really enjoyed reading this book.
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