Anansi the Spider BME Summary Storyboard
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Anansi the Spider: a Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott
By Lauren Ayube
Anansi is a popular folktale character who originated from West Africa. He often takes the shape of a spider, and is known as quite the trickster. He has the ability to outsmart, outwit, and beat his opponents using his cunning creativity. Although Anansi is a trickster, he is often seen as the protagonist in his stories, as he learns lessons from his weaknesses and turns them into messages of triumph and goodness.
Storyboard Description
Have students create a Beginning, Middle, End summary of Anansi the Spider to illustrate key moments from the folktale!
Storyboard Text
- BEGINNING
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- Father is in danger!
- MIDDLE
- See Trouble
- River Drinker
- Stone Thrower
- Cushion
- Road Builder
- Game Skinner
- END
- Anansi gets lost and falls into the river. He gets swallowed by a fish! His son, Trouble Seer, sees that he is in trouble and the six sons set out to help their father.
- Working together using their unique abilities, Anansi’s six sons save their father from danger. All of them returned home safely that evening.
- Anansi sees a great globe of light in the forest, and wants to give it to the son who rescued him. Since all of his sons worked together to rescue him, Anansi asks Nyame, The God of All Things, what he should do. Nyame put the ball in the sky, and that is how the moon came to be.
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