Monday, March 9, 2015

Reading Diary A: Native American Hero Tales


This week, I chose to read the Native American Hero Tales unit. I chose this unit because they used animal personas for the people in the stories. My favorite story in the first half of the unit was Bluejay and His Companions, cont. The story is about 5 men who hunted together; Bluejay, Bluejay’s master, Grouse, Beaver, Land Otter. One day, they were out hunting and Bluejay told the rest of the men to give all the lean parts of the seal to Grouse. Grouse got so mad that he pulled a very messed up prank. When the 4 left one day without Grouse, he carved a seal out of wood and threw it into the water. When the 4 were paddling in ther canoe, the wooden seal came to life and grabbed onto the rope attached to the canoe and swam fast. The men were confused when they saw a seal was puling the canoe. They seal took the men far from shore and finally let go, giving the men time to spear it. But they knew it was the doing of Grouse when they saw it the seal turn back into a small wooden seal. They then paddled around for days to find their village but as they did that, they ran into many other villages. And in ever village, they faced many challenges to stay alive. They broke the rules to win most of them and in so, they were chased until they used their powers, tamanous, to drown the angry people following them. Once they finally reached home they made it important to give Grouse the biggest and fattest parts of the kill when they went hunting.
Blue jay perched in backyard by Jude (2008) 

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