February 27

1. Tree Pose Yoga Vocab: pronunciations and context

2. Review and note: trickster defs

2. Making Claims / Finding Evidence: Trickster Think Sheet

AA

1. Vocabulary 26 MDGR: due Monday

2. Trickster Think Sheet: due Thursday (end (end of period)of period)

TOPIC: Trickster ClaimsTrickster ClaimsLEVEL: Drawing ConclusionsDrawing Conclusions

Tuesday, we . . .

•C-noted Coyote Terms

•Analyzed Brer Rabbit Trickster

•Began Trickster Think Sheet

Today’s Objectives

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop characters.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on characterization.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.

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Magical thinking Connection to nature Belief in spirit Power of Story Oral Tradition

Myth: a religious and cultural story that explains why things are the way they are.

Symbol: an image that stands for an idea.

Theme: the message or philosophy in a story.

Trickster tales: folk tales that feature an animal or human character who engages in deceit, violence, and magic; often mythic, explaining features of the world.

Trickster: the character in a trickster tale who engages in the deceit, violence, and magic.

•Culture hero — a character who is famous for his contributions to the “culture” (art, history, identity) of a society.

•Clever deceiver — yeah, that.

•Numskull — one who creates problems not out of malice but out of ignorance and stupidity.

Trickster Think Sheet

1. Decide which character you will analyze: Thomas or Arnold Joseph.

2. Read “Previous Definitions” on your Trickster Think Sheet.

3. Mark (highlight / underline) the parts of each definition that you will apply to the character you’ve chosen.

4. Compose (write) a working definition that integrates (merges) the ideas you’ve marked.

Trickster Think Sheet

Trickster Think Sheet

Trickster Think Sheet