Day 3, August 17th 2011

Museum Walk

Take a notebook and post-its and walk around the gallery of literary element art.

1. With your notebook write down any terms you do not know very well or do not understand.

2. With the post-its write at least one comment that is positive and one comment that can help the students improve their understanding or presentation.

Socratic Seminar: Coyote Stories

1. What attributes are coyotes usually associated with?

2. What are the results of Coyote disobeying Buffalo Bill’s orders?

3. Folk tales usual teach a lesson or moral. What is the lesson in this tale?

Support this by thinking about what actions are rewarded, what changes occur in the character, and the first and last paragraphs of the story.

4. Why would people enjoy hearing these stories over and over again?

5. What are some the images that were memorable in “Fox and Coyote and Whale”?

6. What is the purpose for telling the “Fox and Coyote and Whale” story?

7. From these stories what can you infer about the Okanogan’s way of life? their values, attitudes, and beliefs? geographical features of their environment? the ways they adapt to their environment?

8. Is Coyote admirable? Why or why not?

9. What do these stories have in common with other folk tales you know?

10.Some Native American have argues that stories about the Animal People constitute “the first history of America.” Do you agree? Explain.

Native American Poems

As a class we will read:

“Song of the Sky Loom”

“Hunting Song”

“Dinni-E Sin”

Literary Analysis of Poems

Repetition: the recurrence of words, phrase or lines. For example, the first line of “Song of the Sky Loom” is the same as the last line.

1. How does this enhance the poem?

2. What is the purpose?

3. What is the style of the three poems presented? Rhythm?

Incremental repetition: the structure of a line or stanza is repeated a certain number of times with a slight variation in wordy each time. The sequence “May the warp be..? May the weft be..? May the border be..?” Is an example of incremental repetition. This is also know as anaphora.

4. What are some examples of anaphora in “Hunting Song”?

Guided Reading: Group Study of Poems

Scholars of Native American song have proposed that repetition creates a regular rhythm for dancing, reinforces important ideas, makes a song easier to remember, gives power to a song, and has a hypnotic effect of the consciousness. In groups Study the use of repetition in the poems and fill out the chart with examples from the poems.

Function of Repetition Examples

Creates regular rhythm

Reinforces ideas

Makes memorable

Gives Power

Has hypnotic effect

Independent Writing

Examine the elements in the Native American poems we read and create a poem in the same style. Think about what the themes are and the elements that are used in this genre.

Colonial America Review

Who?

Who already lived in the area that would become the Colonies?

Who settled in the Colonies?

What?

What was life typically like in Colonial America?

Where?

Where were the Colonies located?

When?

When was the Colonial Period?

Why?

Why would people choose to leave home for an unknown Colony?

Colonial Project

To analyze the different types of literature students will look at different points of view during this time and study the style and purpose of these voices.