Today’s checklistToday’s checklistWarm-up – punctuating quotationsTake up Huron creation myth

fishbonePunctuating quotationsHow Glooskap Found the SummerCreation myths – personal responseCultural elements activityWriting your own pourquoi tale

Take at face value, or…only the two of them can understand each other? She’s a professional donkey whisperer? Boyfriend and girlfriend who’ve been cursed? Aliens who didn’t quite get their disguises right?

Dialogue In the following photograph,

imagine what the two people could be discussing.

With a partner, write a properly punctuated dialogue of at least 5 lines between them.

How Glooskap Found the SummerHighlight or

underline the elements of the fishbone as you read the myth

Personal responseWhat do you think

of creation myths?

Do creation myths and pourquoi tales still serve a purpose, despite that our society relies on science to explain the world around us?

Cultural elements of myths All myths reveal important values

of the cultures to which they belong

You will rotate partners to complete the cultural elements activity

Cultural Elements

Ideas for Pourquoi Tales ♦ Why Owl Has Big Eyes ♦ Why Dogs Howl at the Moon ♦ Why Snake Has No Feet or Hands ♦ Why Geese Fly in the Shape of a V ♦ Why Birds Have Many Colors ♦ Why Roses Have Thorns ♦ Why Pigs Have Curly Tails ♦ Why There are Rainbows ♦ Why There Are Oceans ♦ Why Some Trees Lose Their Leaves and Others are

Evergreen ♦ How Jellyfish Came to Be ♦ Why the Big Toe is So Much Bigger than the Other

Toes ♦ Why Porcupine Has Quills

Start with the endTo begin your pourquoi tale, you

must start at the endWhat are you going to explain in

your tale?