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Title: The Eart on Turtle's Back
Description: Reading Tips before Short Story Literary Analysis Reading Strategy Reading Check Critical Reading Questions and Answers
Description: Reading Tips before Short Story Literary Analysis Reading Strategy Reading Check Critical Reading Questions and Answers
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Earth on Turtle’s Back
January 18, 2016
Prentice Hall Literature
Literacy Short Stories
The Selection
The myth from the Onondaga people relates a story about the creation of the world
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Critical Thinking
Question: What characteristics of this turtle are explained in this origin myth?
Answer: The marks on the turtle’s shell are explained as muddy paw prints left by
Muskrat
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Read first sentence, then ask yourself, “how do the opening words of this story
identify it as an origin myth?
o Answer: The first sentence describes what existed before the creation of Earth
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List on a piece of paper the cultural details or topics that appear in this passage
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Students need to answer the question to themselves, “What do the chief’s words to his
wife tell you about the beliefs of the Onondaga?
o Answer: The Onondaga believe that dreams are powerful, influential messages
and that the dreams must be obeyed
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Literary Analysis
Origin Myths and Oral Tradition
Students should read aloud the paragraphs in which various animals dive down in the
ocean
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If
necessary draw students’ attention to the “generic” quality of each name
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Critical Reading
1
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Answer: Students may say they would be obliged to take the dream seriously and
tradition, as the chief did; others may say that they would not have let a dream persuade
them to alter or remove a sacred tree
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Questions: Explain what happened to the wife of the chief when the young men uprooted
the Great Tree? Why did this action generate concern among the animals?
Answers: In trying to look down the hole left by the uprooted tree, she leans too far and
falls into the hole
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3
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How do these
actions exhibit the best aspects of human nature?
Answer: Each animal attempts (and fails) to dive deep enough to retrieve some earth
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None of the animals is fearful or selfish
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Question: Whom do the Onondaga credit with bringing Earth into existence? For this
myth, what you can conclude about the relationship between the Onondaga and their
natural environment? Explain
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The myth suggests that the Onondaga felt respect and eve affection for nature
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5
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How does society benefit from brave actions
like this?
Answer: Often substantive achievements require bold action
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Title: The Eart on Turtle's Back
Description: Reading Tips before Short Story Literary Analysis Reading Strategy Reading Check Critical Reading Questions and Answers
Description: Reading Tips before Short Story Literary Analysis Reading Strategy Reading Check Critical Reading Questions and Answers