G-String Cordilleran Revelries
Fairy Tales Retold for Centuries to Teach Life's Family Values and Basic Reading Skills with Simple Magic Tricks and Indigenous Forms of Entertainment Loved by Cordilleran Children
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"G-String Cordilleran Revelries: Fairy Tales Retold for Centuries to Teach Life’s Family Values, and Basic Reading Skills with Simple Magic Tricks and Indigenous Forms of Entertainment (Purchase this Book and Help Meet the Needs of Wounded Veterans’ Children.) is a unique children’s book. It’s main focus is twenty selected folktales/fairy tales which for centuries used by our Cordilleran tribal ancestry in five Cordilleran sub-provinces of the island of Luzon, the Philippines to teach life’s family values and basic reading skills to their children. The chanting/singing and re-telling of these fairy tales were accompanied by the playing of gongs and other musical instruments for entertainment purposes and with simple magic tricks attracted attention of the Cordilleran children. These "G-string Cordilleran revelries" of our forefathers, like those of other ancient cultures, provide insights of the diverse aspects of their lives: food they produced and prepared; the Gods and spirits they worshipped; songs and dances they created to praise life; the lands in which they lived and operated to meet the demands of life; and non-scientific explanations of some aspects of Nature from a non-western vantage point. The book is, therefore, primarily designed:for entertainment purposes; as a vehicle to learning family values in life lacking in our modern societies; and,a teaching tool for basic reading skills planned for children in fourth, fifth, sixth, and middle school grades. Educators in all levels of education (grade school, middle school, high school and even college) are aware that many of our students are lacking of necessary reading skills (vocabulary, contextual, three levels of comprehension, etc.)to succeed in school. As alluded, our Cordilleran forefathers taught their children to think, conceptualize and discuss among themselves certain family values through these fairy tales.They must have done well with these "G-string revelries"!. There were no schools, hospitals, churches and other religious bodies; yet,their children with no formal education were equipped with basic family values to succeed in their respective lives. This book has a PURPOSE! Forty percent of royalties from the sale of each book will be used for a lofty cause-to help with the educational needs of disabled veteran’s children. Moreover, its authors encourage the utilization of other folktales from other nonwestern and western cultures as sources of teaching family values. Parents’ concerns with the use of dragons, witches, giants, spirits, and other mythical creatures as representing violence is far from the truth. "Violence" in fairy tales is a far cry from the violence experienced in watching modern television. Folktale violence occurs as a punishment for a bad behavior; therefore, a fair play to children as a motivating factor why children listen and read folktales. This is why, without formal schools, churches and other religious bodies, our Cordilleran forefathers utilized these "G-string fairy tales" to teach their children life’s family values. It is interesting to note that these same family values are frequently expounded by our modern day gurus for self-improvement causes.
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G-String fairy tales of the Cordillerans is rather a unique book.How did a G-String (a woven colorful unique fashion) special group of people in the northernmost area of the Philippines came to introduce fairy tales as a tool for children: to develop their linguistic and language skills while maintening fun and interactive learning environment? The Cordilleran forefathers, who arrived by land bridges 30,000 years ago, developed and used these folktales to teach their children life's family values- some of which are expounded by self-improvement gurus in their lectures.When formal schooling was introduced during the American occupation of the Philippines in the 1930's, these same fairy tales were used to teach the children reading skills and the English language. Another lofty purpose of this book is the encouragement of diverse "non-western" cultural groups in the Western world to share their respective fairy tales/folktales as means of supporting the examination and understanding of cultures other than one's own.; explain to other children of this world the existence of imaginative wonders that do not have scientific explanation; and,teach life's lessons that there are circumstances and conditions that do not have any explanaton yet exist!. Furthermore, this is a HUMANE PROJECT. Royalties (after administrative expenses) procured from the sales of this book will assist with the educational needs of children of disabled veterans including other children.
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This will be a childrens book preferably for middle school children. For past centuries my Cordilleran forefathers authored these fairy tales for the purpose of: teaching family values in life; reinforcing ethics and morals; reading skills for educartional growth; and multi-cultural understanding while encouraging fun, creativity and imagination to their children, therefore, the magic tricks and indigenous dances. My first introduction to these G-String fairy tales for learning purposes was when my grandparents/ mother and I organized these fairy tales so I could learn life's family values and reading skills. from the literature. My great, great grandparents- primary authors of this book- were unique authors. They accepted these fairy tales from their ancestors and re-told the same to later generations, had no formal education and they were tribal leaders who hunted and practiced spiritual rituals.My grandmother, was a schoolteacher, my mother, Dr. Beatrice Batnag Donofrio, a retired professor with a Doctorate in Education from Columbia University (U.S.A.), and I, Antonio Donofrio, finalized the authorship of this chidrens book. I am still a perrenial student in the field of Computer Science; there is so much more for me to learn in this field of study. Finally, my father Robert M. Donofrio of Italian, Polish and Russian Jewish blood completes the authorship of this book. Of artistic abilities, he did the illustrations of the book.