This week I chose to read a unit from the Middle East. I decided to read
Persian Tales. I think the whole fairy tales name really got me excited to read this unit. I've always been a fan of them, and to get a glimpse into Persian fairy tales sounded like a really fun idea. After reading the overview, I really got hooked. Animals and magical adventures sounded like a great time, and I was excited to get into the actual reading. The first story that really caught my eye was
Nim Tanak, or Half-Boy. It was really the name that hooked me onto the story at first, and I'm glad I got to read it. The story was actually quite sad, at least at first. It was a nice refresher that the "half-boy" was the hero of the story. Luckily, he got what he truly deserved in the end, which was his families love. You really can't judge a book by it's cover.
The second story that I really enjoyed was
Muhammad Tirandaz, The Archer. A story about an archer just seemed very exciting to read. It was very interesting
that from killing two mice with one shot, he got so much. I really liked that
they referred to the mice as two lions in the story. It made Muhammad sound
much fiercer than he actually was. Sometimes this is a bad thing, but in the
end it definitely ended up working for him.
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