Welcome to Your Literature Disussion Site

Welcome to Ms. Tilley's English III blogspot. You are the inaugural class to use this blog. I hope it will provide a forum for you to discuss literature, not just with me, but with your classmates - any time of day or night. Your responsibility will be to make a post, that involves higher level thinking skills, at least five times per unit. Each post will be worth twenty points. All five post will be assessed as one 100-point test. Deadlines for final posting and "higher level thinking skills" will be further discussed during units and/or class.

Common Elements of Creation Myths

Involves the Supernatural

Gives order & understanding to the unexplained.

Gives high priority and emphasizes nature and or the natural.


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Mayan Creation Myth - Compare & Contrast

Click on this site: http://mythicjourneys.org/bigmyth Enter site and click on the Mayan site in the Americas. Read and listen to the creation myth of the Mayans for the purpose of comparing and contrasting it to the creation myth told in "The World on The Turtle's Back'. You may find a Venn Diagram to assist you in the compare/contrast at www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/venn.pdf

Native American Winter Chant

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Monday, July 13, 2009

What do you know about how the first people in the Americas transmitted information? What type of stories did they tell and how did they transmit those stories?
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