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THE GAME OF THE GOOSE
                                
PHAISTOS DISC, 2 MILLENNIUM B.C.
ND
RESEARCHED AND COMPILED BY
XOSÉ MANUEL ALVARIÑO, TEACHER
HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT
11690 NW 92
ND
AVENUE
HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA 33018
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E-MAIL:
ALVARINO@DADESCHOOLS.NET
 
 
 
 
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-Dedication-
To Ana,
For that long ago summer when we went looking for “oca” boards all over
Madrid’s Chueca and Malatesta neighborhoods that I could use with my students
in the States. They worked.
Graciñas.
Xosé Manuel
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Table of Contents
Introduction………………………………………………………………… 4
Brief History…………………………………………………………. ……..5
Playing the Game…………………………………………………… ……..9
Rules and Posters………………………………………………………….12
Boards and Pawns…………………………………………………………14
A Game of the Goose Novel……………………………………………...22
“The Game of the Goose’s” Teacher Notes………………………….. 24
Classroom Project………………………………………………………....28
Bilingual/Multicultural Internet Resources……………………...........38
On-Line Goose Games…………………………………………………...42
Goose Game Board Downloading…………………………………….. 43
Goose Game-related Games……………………………….. …………..43
Goose Games Available Through the Net…………………………….43
Bibliography………………………………………………………………..44
Last Game Board Samples Before …………………………………….45
…The End! ………………………………………………………………....47
Notes………………………………………………………………………...48
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Introduction
A few summers ago I traveled to Spain to walk one of the Roads to St. James (Caminos
de Santiago), mostly for secular reasons, but that’s another workshop.
Most European schools are in session until the end of June or the beginning of July; at
least they were then. Consequently, I had the opportunity to visit some schools in
different parts of the Iberian Peninsula. It was there that I encountered the ancient “juego
de la oca,” or “goose game,” a table game adapted to the academic subjects the
students were learning. I was very impressed as I saw how enthusiastically they played
it; afterwards they taught me the game in boards they had proudly created as family
projects. I remember thinking that this was the pedagogic find of a lifetime, as the game
was easily adaptable for all ages, grade levels, and subjects. I knew there and then that I
was going to teach it to my students in the States, adapted to the subjects I taught. I
started conducting research on the game on both sides of the Atlantic, and have been
using it with dynamite success with my students.
The purpose of this Idea Packet is for fellow-educators, students, and their families, to
learn this multicultural/multilingual game, its history, significance, rules, potential, and
how to use it in the classroom and at home; to buy into it, passionately and without
reservations, and use it as an innovative vehicle to aid in meeting curricular objectives. It
is encouraged to change, alter, and adapt the game as deemed necessary; no copyrights
infringements apply (the ancient Greeks were too busy tearing down walls) and most
likely the Goose Game Police won’t be around to notice.
This project contains a summary of the game’s millenary history, how to play it, bilingual
Goose Game rules created specifically to be enlarged, laminated, and used, in
classrooms and homes, related-Internet resources, sample game boards, literature,
classroom activities, illustrations, and a bibliography.
Lastly and more than anything, it is a game. Have fun.
Saludos,
Xosé Manuel Alvariño
Brief History of the Goose Game
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There are various interpretations of the origin of the “Game of the Goose,” or
“Goose Game,” A.K.A. “Juego de la Oca” (Spanish), “Gioco Dell’Oca” (Italian),
“Jardin de L’Oie” (French), “Gänsespiel“ or “Ganzenbord“ (Deutsch), “Joc de la
oca” (Catalan), “Jogo do Ganso” (Portuguese), and more.
Published by Johann Raab in Nuremberg in the late 18th century, this print is documented as a hand-colored lithograph
it's more likely a woodblock print, since lithography was invented in 1796.
Researches have linked the game to various labyrinthical drawings found as far
back as pre-historic times in various parts of the globe, Egypt being one. The
goose, on the other hand, has been regarded as a wise, ancestral, animal, of
symbolic importance; the only one that can walk, swim, and fly. Some document
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