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.


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

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?

15 comments:

  1. I like the story better becaus I havent seen the story on the computer yet.

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  2. id enjoyed watching the movie better than reading the story the world on the turtles back.

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  3. I liked the "MAYAN CREATION" story better than "The World on The Turtle's Back" because it explained the myth more clearly.

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  5. I liked reading "The World on the Turtle's Back" better than the Mayan Myth because the story was more detailed and desriptive.

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  6. I liked better the story of "The World On the Turtle's Back" because it had more conflict and suspense.

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  7. i liked "the world on the turtles back" because it has good imagery

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  8. I liked the "Mayan Creation" video better than the "The World on The Turtle's Back" because it gave a better explanation and it showed all of the details.

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  9. I liked the Mayan Creation myth better because it gave me visual image of what was going on in the story and it explained it better.

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  10. i loved reading the story "The World on the Turle's back" beacuse i rather read and make the images in my head rather then see something someone else made up!

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  11. I preffered viewing the "Mayan Myth" because the the information they gave was closer to the belife that i have on how the world was created. If I were to make a change in either one i would have left out the part that they mention where the animals tried to praise the gods and they other type of human races taht had came before

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  12. I prefered the "Mayan Creation Myth" more than "The World on The Turtle's Back" because you can better understand the "Mayan Myth" in full detail because of its visual,and audity.

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  13. I liked the "Mayan Myth" better because it gave us a visual of how the Gods actually looked and how they reacted.Both stories did create awe for me. In "The World On The Turtle's Back" the part that created awe for me was when the good son killed both his grandmother and his brother. That was not very nice. In the "Mayan Myth" the part that created awe for me was when the Gods started creatin men in different ways.

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  14. I like the "The World on the Turtle's Back" better than "Mayan Myth" story because it's more discriptive and gave me a better understanding of how the creators were created themselves. If I were to make changes in either stories, it would have to be in "The World on the Turtle's Back" on the pregnancy of the daughter because you cannot get empregenated with an arrow.

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