Journal Entry-March10-11, 2008

Aim: Students will transfer their understanding of the Oral Tradition to explain their Native American Folktale.
Students will identify parallels between their folktales.Students will annotate and analyze their folktales for any literary terms.
Do Now: compare your folktale to the documentary we saw last week on Native Americans:
1. How is your folktale representative of Native Americans?
The folktale is about the Plain Tribes; Lakota and Sioux that tells about how they sacred pipie and how they are to use it in a cermonyThis is very important to the Lakota or Sioux because it is sacered to them in their ceremony.
2. Does it represent a specific Native American tribe?
This folktale represents the Lakota and Sioux, which are the Native American tribes in the Plains.
3. What is mythological about your folktale?
Something mythological about this is the White Buffalo Woman. She was 1/2 woman and 1/2 buffalo.
4. What literary terms did you identify in your folktale?
characterization-imagery on the white buffalo woman
setting-important setting, Colorado...Sand Creek.