Native American Oral Tradition

* What oral tradition have you been a part of? What story have you heard from your family or church that is passed down? Tell the story & why you think it is being passed down.

* TEXTBOOK?? * Journal * Voc. Ppt. & Homework * Native-American Story-Telling * 2 Video Clips * Gallery Walk * Essay revision

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* EQ: How does oral tradition impact us today?

* Many religious writings, including the Bible, were

originally passed down through oral tradition until written. * Greek & Roman myths * Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey * African tales * Viking & Germanic stories (like Beowulf) * Native-American stories & legends * African-American stories & songs: video "Language & Oral Tradition"

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* Native American Story-Telling

* Take notes on the handout.

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* Teach lessons

Explain the world around them

* Silently read pp. 15-16. Why are storytellers important to this modern Native American writer?

* Circulate from one station to another with your group.

* Do the activity in the folder.

ONE person

writes for the group.

* Leave the paper in the folder. other people’s papers yet!

* Last station is different.

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Do NOT look at

* EVALUATE the answers in the folder I give your group. Which is best? Pick someone to read the answers.

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* Get out your books/magazines now to read SILENTLY. You will have an activity afterwards on your reading.

* Pick out a sentence or two

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from your reading that was interesting, profound, or irritating! THINK. * Write it in your journal and put quotation marks around it & parentheses after it. (Author’s last name page no.) INK. * Below it explain the passage, argue with it, tell a story that happened that it reminds you of. LINK. * YOU MUST FILL UP THE PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * Switch snippets/journals. On the back write a letter to him/her. React to what was written. You can draw as well as write, but you must FILL UP THE BACK!

* AIR Time & Snippet * Voc. In Pairs (Homework) * Native-American Story-Telling Review * Gallery Walk Follow-Up * Questions on Legends

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* EQ: How does oral tradition impact us today?

* Read pp. 15-16. Why are storytellers important to this modern Native American writer?

* 2nd period. . . Look up on the board.

Read the 3 passages in our text & do questions on P. 23 & 28 in whole sentences to turn in.

* 3rd period . . .

Read the one passage you have not yet read & do questions on P. 23 & 28 in whole sentences to turn in. THEN work WITH A PARTNER on questions 1-4, 7, & 9 (P. 29).

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* Patterns, symbols, or characters that repeat across cultures

* Native American ones:

coyote, turtle, wind,

compass points

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What difficulties would he/she have in understanding our society today? Would he/she judge us? Why/not?

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You have 10-15 min.

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* EQ: How does an archetype function in entertainment or didactic literature today?

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NOTES:

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Modoc “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” (pp. 24-26) – dark, grim Navajo from the Navajo Origin Legend (pp. 27-28)

* Patterns, symbols, or characters that repeat across cultures

* Native American ones:

coyote, turtle, wind, compass points, grizzly bears

* Can be in entertainment or didactic (teaching) literature

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* pp. 20-23

Re-read and do questions (5) on P. 23.

*Fill out the matrix on the 3 pieces we have read.

*Select a Native-American

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tribe or any ethnicity you would like to research.

*Find online an origin myth of that people.

*Read it and fill in the 4th column of the matrix. Make SURE to name the people.

* Option 1:

Describe your visit to a museum. What did you see? Did you want to be there? What object stood out to you and why?

* Option 2:

If you time-traveled to a museum 100 years in the future, what would be there? Why? Describe the displays.

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* Journal * Review of Origin Myths * Horton Hears a Who & ppt. w/ movie trailer * “Museum Indians” * Practice Quiz or Vocab Icons

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* EQ: How does heritage impact us today? How can it alienate us in modern society?

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Write notes as we discuss whole-class.

*What is an archetype in modern movies?

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* Motif = recurring topic or image (like an archetype) * Alienation = separation and isolation * Disenfranchisement = the state of having no ownership or voice

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* How does this book illustrate

disenfranchisement & alienation?

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Horton Who’s

Whoville

* What is the implication of items in a museum?

*Night at the Museum 3

* What is the author’s tone towards her heritage?

What has disenfranchised her? How? Do questions on P. 39 when done reading.

* What is another

disenfranchised group today?

* What is causing their

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alienation?

Write your idea on a sticky note and slap it on the left board before leaving.

*What is another disenfranchised group today?

*What is causing

their alienation?

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* Read afterwards.

* EQ: How does Native-American heritage impact our government today?

Whip-Around Stand & tell one fact you remember from reading, watching, discussing, researching Native-American legends/myths/modern memoir. You can PASS once only!

* Forerunner of the Constitution of the U.S.A. pp. 41-43

Decide if the title to this video is accurate, biased, exaggerated, understated, &/or merely inflammatory. Be able to defend with evidence from the video.

* Iroquois united in 16th century or earlier. * Dekanawidah, prophet, urged bands in N. Y. to

quit fighting and unite. * Five Nations (confederacy of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, & Mohawk tribes) = Iroquois * Later Tuscarora joined the Six Nations. * Gained power over other tribes later * Helped the British win the French & Indian War * Divided during the Revolutionary War

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* United the Iroquois * Established laws & practices * Passed down orally for generations * Recorded in shell beads called wampum (memory device for oral tradition)

* Now called the Iroquois Constitution * Written down in 1800s

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* An Onondaga named Canassatego suggested that the colonists form a nation similar to the Iroquois Confederacy during a meeting of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in Lancaster on June 25, 1744. * According to the director of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Peter J. Parker, the council minutes show that Canassatego urged the colonists to ''receive these your brethren with open arms; unite yourselves to them in the covenant chain and be you with them as one body and one soul.'‘ * ''They contemplated examples from Europe, examples from Greco-Roman times, examples from the Bible,'' he said. ''And they also looked at Native American examples, particularly the Iroquois Confederacy.''

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* One forum to share ideas between the colonists and the Iroquois, in the years leading to the French and Indian War, was the the Albany Congress between June 19 and July 9, 1754. At the meeting, representatives of the six Indian nations and seven colonies heard Benjamin Franklin champion the Iroquois example as he presented his Plan of Union. * ''It would be a strange thing,'' he told the assembly, ''if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming such a union, and yet it has subsisted for ages and appears indissolvable, and yet a like union should be impractical for 10 or a dozen English colonies.''

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How could this be important in oral tradition?

* The Iroquois’ tree’s roots

were strength and peace.

* Draw a Tree of Great Peace

for America today. Include its roots & name them. What are the roots (origins) of peace for us? Why?

* Name 3-5 of the leaves (results).

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*Go to my webpage & under Helpful Links, read Eng. III Iroquois Constitution article. *Venn diagram the similarities/diff. between the U.S. Constitution & the Iroquois’ one.

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* Why do you think

Dekanawidah was successful?

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