Grandmother spider brings the sunA CHEROKEE MYTH RETOLD BY GERI KEAMSNAME: DAVID DONDIS

ELOY HURTADO

Summary

In this story, one half of the world has sun but the other half doesn’t. There are a lot of animals on the side with no sun. There is a wolf in this story. He can see in the dark but the other animals can’t. All of the animals got together and made a plan that they were going to steal a piece of the sun. First, a little possum dug a tunnel and when he got back there he took a piece of the sun. He put it in his tail, but on his way back the sun burnt his tail and all of his hair fell off. Then out of nowhere a bird said, “I’ll go.” He got there and he took a piece and put it in his crown of feathers. On his way back the sun burnt his feathers. When the possum got back, a tiny little voice said, “I’ll go, I’ll go.” It was grandmother spider and they let her go try even though they didn’t think she could do it. She made a clay bowl and when she got there she put a piece of the sun in her bowl. When she got back the sun was so bright that it popped out and went into the sky!

Major characters

Grandmother spider Coyote Wolf Possum Buzzard Bear Deer

Literary words

Onomatopoeia: We call the use of words that imitate sounds. For example: buzz, click, jingle, bang, and boom.► Repetition: Is using words more than once. For example: In the story the coyote says, "Calm down, calm down, calm down.”► Irony: Is the difference between what the reader expects to

happen and what actually happens in a story.

Vocabulary Words

Possum: Nocturnal arboreal marsupial havunng a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America.

Soared: To fly upward, as a bird . Chant: Sing Words in one tone. Sneaked: To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way. Buzzard: Any of various North A merican vultures, such as the

turkey vulture.

Author info

Geri Keams is a Navajo Indian Storyteller, Actress, and Author born and raised in the Painted Desert of Arizona. Her Mother´s Clan is the Streak- of- Black-forest, she was born for the Manygoats Clan Geri grew up without televisión, living on the reservation with her nine brothers and sister. She atended boarding schools on and near the reservation in norther Arizona. Her grand mother, a rugweaver snd story teller, inspired Geri to remember the stories and culture or her people.

Reasons why other students might like the book

Expand your vocabularyHelp you to learn new words and also improve the pronunciationIts interesting.