TOPIC:  NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of today’s lesson you should be able to

1. Self-assess your use of strategies for reading informational texts
2. Be able to define  ORIGIN MYTH in your own words
3. Be able to explain the main ideas of the following stories
   1. “The Earth on Turtle’s Back”
   2. “When Grizzlies Walked Upright.”
   3. “The Navaho Origin Legend.”

 

ACTIVITIES

1.  We all read “The Origins of Pandora’s Box” and filled out the first part of the self-assessment handout.
2. At your group/table, each student was assigned to read one of three origin myth stories.  Then, working together, you analyzed the three stories.
3. Class discussion followed.