This week our class will begin a short unit on writing Native American legends. We have read a few stories from the Pacific Northwest, including Storm Boy, Frog Girl, and How Raven Stole the Sun. We will examine Storm Boy, by Paul Owen Lewis, in depth and use it as a template to create our own legends.
Parents, if you have any Native American (particularly Pacific Northwest Native American) legends at home, or find any online, it would be wonderful if you could read them with your child. Look especially for themes of separation of the hero from his or her village, initiation into a new village, and return to the home village with new knowledge.
The more authentic legends your child is exposed to, the easier it will be for him or her to adopt the voice and word choice used in this genre!
18 comments:
- We have not read frog girl yet
-Emma
yes we have. we read it at the begining of studeing nativ ameracans.
I love writing all these stories they are so much fun I like playing with friends and stuff.
-Emilia
Legends are hard so I am going to ask Mrs.Lee.
-Connor
After we read the book storm boy we got to ride our own legends it is really fun! Today i finished brain storming and i started my rough draft. it is really fun to do this because it is like being a real athour and i hope i can be when i get older i love to write stories and draw.
Julia
I have read Frog Girl.
Anna
storm boy is fun because i like wene he was under water and he could breath julian
storm boy was a really good book.
cole
My legend is about Native Americans living in summer camps. My character is Puc'um (which means Wildcat), who is 17. He is in his canoe fishing with a spear and then a storm comes. The storm hits his boat and then he sinks. Then he is on land but the sky is different - it has salmon on it! Then he sees giant people! They have music and they eat salmon together and they help Puc'um go home. It turns out the people were sharks, but they were nice to people!
-Jonah
My legend is about Native Americans living in summer camps. My character is Puc'um (which means Wildcat), who is 17. He is in his canoe fishing with a spear and then a storm comes. The storm hits his boat and then he sinks. Then he is on land but the sky is different - it has salmon on it! Then he sees giant people! They have music and they eat salmon together and they help Puc'um go home. It turns out the people were sharks, but they were nice to people!
-Jonah
My legend is about Native Americans living in summer camps. My character is Puc'um (which means Wildcat), who is 17. He is in his canoe fishing with a spear and then a storm comes. The storm hits his boat and then he sinks. Then he is on land but the sky is different - it has salmon on it! Then he sees giant people! They have music and they eat salmon together and they help Puc'um go home. It turns out the people were sharks, but they were nice to people!
-Jonah
My legend is about Native Americans living in summer camps. My character is Puc'um (which means Wildcat), who is 17. He is in his canoe fishing with a spear and then a storm comes. The storm hits his boat and then he sinks. Then he is on land but the sky is different - it has salmon on it! Then he sees giant people! They have music and they eat salmon together and they help Puc'um go home. It turns out the people were sharks, but they were nice to people!
-Jonah
My story is about a girl named Flower Maid and she is picking berries. She gets tired and falls asleep. When she wakes up , she finds herself in a different place. She doesn't know this, but she is in the land of the Sun People.
-Maria
P.S. I don't think we read Frog Girl.
I do nit have eneything in my houes that has NativeAmerican but I can get some. Elijah
My legend is pretty much almost done.
-Elias
Finally, some of our legends are done! That's pretty amazing!
I was not here and I did not finis my legen Iwas sicke so I hope you have ed a good time my stoy was a but to boys that fel in to the river or oshun like in the store Elijah
My story is about a kid that findes small pople.
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