Grade 12
- Finished discussing the Haudenosaunee Creation Story. Began analysis which should address the elements (see below) and predict the nature and values of the culture that tells the story. Analysis is due no later than Wednesday.
- Note 1: For the rest of this unit I will be checking annotations for a minor grade.
- Note 2: You will be writing an analysis for each creation story for a minor grade.
- Note3: The Chinese Creation Myth in the packet is the wrong one! I'll give you the right one tomorrow.
- Group A journals are due tomorrow.
Elements/Symbolism:
SkyWorld: heaven, cosmological function, age of innocence, fall from innocence, childhood
Celestial Tree (Shad Tree): Tree of life, knowledge of duality, duality is reconciled or balanced, axis mundi, spiritus mundi, world navel
Sky Woman: goddess, feminine impulse, creation
Pregnant: feminine impulse, creation, new life
Seeds: from the Tree of Life and are therefore divine, a blessing, grants divinity to the natural world, everything is sacred
Animal assistance: results in appreciation and respect: sociological function.
Muskrat/Otter: hero qualities
Turtle: sacrifice, hero qualities, indebted to it, it supports us, it’s alive
Sky Woman’s daughter: feminine impulse, curiosity, forbidden thing, gives birth to duality, Mother Earth
First death: duality, sacrifice
West Wind: masculine impulse
Right handed twin: light and day, good, life
Left handed twin: darkness and night, evil, death
Three Sisters: feminine impulse, nurtures life, sacred food
Tobacco: communicate with the Creator, metaphysical function of myth
Grandmother Moon: feminine impulse, controls feminine cycles, metaphysical function
Caves: subconscious, hell
Grade 10
- Journal: Select an event from the past weekend and describe it in detail.
- Finished "Two Tramps in Mud Time".
- Make sure summary is finished and the poem in annotated.
- HW: Critical Thinking 1 and 2 in notebook.
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