BACKGROUND

1. Storyteller: How was the epic transmitted?
2. Birth: How is the hero's pedigree mythically established?
3. Call: What calls the hero to take action?
4. Tests: What are the qualities of a hero revealed during the tests?
5. Helpers/tools: Where does the hero's power come from?
6. Return/Elixer-prize: What does the hero accomplish?

• Page 1: Interview with Jyoti Rout: How I became a dancer.
• Page 2: Interview with Jyoti Rout: Ramayana in dance
• Page 3: The Dance: Navarasa ("Nine Moods")
• Page 4: Mood of Love: Demonstration
• Page 5 Love: Final Performance
• Page 6: Mood of Virtue: Demonstration
• Page 7 Virtue: Final Performance

South Asia Center at Syracuse University has a great Ramayana resource site. http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/sac/Outreach/ramayana/index.asp

A brief illustrated student version on British school site. http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/mythindex.htm

University of North Carolina teaching site on Ramayana.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ramayana/
The Ramayana, the great epic of South and Southeast Asia, is here retold through the art forms of various cultures. You will see murals from the Emerald Buddha Temple in Thailand, paintings from India and Bali, and dance, puppetry, and stone carvings from Java. The story is divided into seven parts, and an introduction provides historical, cultural, and literary background.

Also a useful Glossary of Hindu terms by Paul Flesher written for his course at Univ. of Wyoming. 

See also Donna Kasprowicz' bibliography of Southeast Asian versions.

The Ramayana in Southeast Asia
Includes:

SEA Image Library, background and student activities.

TEACHER MATERIALS (from Donna Kasprowicz):

• Overview: Sequence of History Through Literature Topics during 6th & 7th grade school year
• Assessment Tools - Language Arts (pdf documents)

1. Story Analysis
• Story Analysis: Student worksheet  (as Word doc)
• Story Analysis: Instructions to students 
• Story Analysis: Notes on vocabulary to teacher 
• Teacher key to Ramayana Story Analysis
2. Journal
• Dialectical Journal 
• Complex Dialectical Journal 
• Assessment Tools - Fine Arts

1. Shadow Play
• Ramayana Shadow Play: Student Script
• Ramayana Shadow Play Instructions 
  

2. Story Cloth
3. Mask Making (from Brigid Corboy)

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